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CS 103: Introduction to Computing


This page provides links to the assigments given in the Fall 2006 version of Introduction to Computer Science, a course for students in Health Sciences at Merrimack College. This was my first version of the course, and many of the assignments are terse. Feel free to steal anything here: please let me know of any changes you make or difficulties you find.

Application Name Description
Word Letter Home Use MS Word to write a letter home
Word Web Build a home page
Excel Compound Interest Introduction to Excel. How long does it take to double your money?
Excel Present Value Financing a car purchase
Excel Credit Card Crisis How to payoff a Visa bill, plus rant about Usury
Excel Bioinformatics Computing the Longest Common Subsequence
Excel Applications of Sorting Queries about a list of popular songs
Excel Sorting Race different sorts, compare and estimate the complexity
PowerPoint PowerPoint Use MS PowerPoint
Excel Linear Regression Computing the sum of squares of error terms. Trendlines in Excel
Access Database Queries and Reports Queries, Reports, and Reading and Editing SQL
Circuit Simulator Circuit Design Half Adder, DeMorgan, and Circuit Design
Circuit Simulator Logic Minimization Karnaugh Maps