CSS111 : Introduction to Information

Technology and Systems

Lecture3: Window
Kihoza, Patrick D (PhD)
Email: pdkihoza@mzumbe.ac.tz
Mobile: 0713551987
 Welcome!
to the Computer Lab
Montgomery County-Norristown
Public Library
 Introduction to Windows

Lab Activities Objectives:

• Identify and use computer hardware
• Open and close a desired program
• Switch back and forth between open windows
• Create and save a document on a discs and online.
 Introduction to Windows
Basic computer parts:
• Computer case
• Monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse
 Your Folder

• Contact Information, Website Address and Computer Lab Hours

• Scheduled Lab Closures to check in case you want to get in some
extra Practice!
• Handouts that can be referred to during all of our Courses
– Glossary
– How to access library website class resources page (Handout 1)
• Please don’t forget to bring your folder to ALL your classes!!
Goals for Computer Basics Course

This week…
• Become comfortable with the mouse and the
keyboard to interact with a computer.
• Become familiar with parts of the computer
and computer terminology.
Goals for Computer Basics Course
Homework…
• Study the keyboard chart (Handout 2)
• If you are unable to complete Mousercise in under 10 min
today, come in and pass it before next class!
• Think about what you want to do after Computer Basics
• Look at the Class Calendar and Course Descriptions
• Ask us questions if you have them
• Make a decision before next week and remember to
bring class fee with you (cash or check, 1 check per
course please)
Workstation Ergonomics (1 / 2)
 Keyboards can be removed from drawers
 Chairs are adjustable
 Monitor is adjustable up and down and tilt
 Tear-off computer numbers
 Clear keyboard and mousepad of any papers or
other objects.
Workstation Ergonomics (2 / 2)
 Head and neck balanced and in-
line with torso
 Shoulders relaxed
 Elbows close to body and
supported
 Lower back supported
 Wrists and hands in-line with
forearms
 Feet flat on the floor
 Components of the
Computer --Lab Computers
Monitor Tower – Front View

2 USB Ports

Headphones

Mouse
Keyboard

Mouse Pad
 Power Button Storage Devices
Storage Device Example Uses

Compact Disc
SD Card Reader
Music
(CD)
Optical
Drive USB 2.0 Ports
Digital Video Disc
Movies
(DVD)
USB 3.0 Ports

SD Card Digital cameras

Storing personal
files for carrying
Hard Drive USB Drive with you
(inside the computer) (2.0 and 3.0) (3.0 is much faster,
“Thumb Drive” but it must be
plugged into a 3.0
“Flash Drive”
port to take
advantage of the
extra speed)
Storing personal
Two 2.0 USB Ports
on Monitor Hard Drive files on your
home computer
 Keyboard
• Handout 2 in your folder has a diagram of the keyboard keys.
• Please study this handout so that by next week, you are extremely familiar with
the important keys.
• We’ll look over the keyboard now, then we’ll practice some keyboarding.
Layout of Alphabetic Keys
QWERTY
 Examples of Programs/Apps

WordPad Microsoft Word Internet Explorer

Weather Paint 3D Calculator

 Operating Systems

Microsoft macOS
Linux
Windows (Apple
Computers)

Android
iOS
(smart phones
(iPhones & iPads)
& tablets)
 Identify and use icons, windows, menus
• Point, click, double-click, drag & drop
• Minimize and maximize a window
• Use pull-down menus
• Select, open, and move an icon
• Select, open, move, and close a window
• Resize a window
• Scroll a window
• Activate and de-activate a window
• Start an application and create a document
Introduction to Windows

Activity &
Review Questions
 Introduction to Windows
The Desktop
• The desktop is the first thing you see when
you log in- it is the “launch pad”

• Icons, or pictures, represent programs that

are available on the computer.
• Folders + Files+ shortcuts to application

• Notice the gray task bar at the bottom of the

screen.
 Introduction to Windows
Activity
• Locate the following items on your desktop:

 Taskbar
 Program icon
 Mouse pointer
 Start button
 Introduction to Windows
Activity
Starting a Program:

• You start, or open, a program by double-

clicking its icon on the desktop

• The program is visible as a window on the

computer screen

• A button representing the program appears

on the taskbar
Introduction to Windows

Activity &
Review Questions
 Introduction to Windows
Working With Windows

• A windows represents an open program or

folder.

• You can have more than one window open at

a time.

• The window you are working in is called the

active window.

• The active window will be on top of any other

open windows.
 Introduction to Windows
Common Elements

• Common elements help make computers

easier to use.
• Picture icons are used to represent actions.
• Most programs have things in common:
 Save
 Copy
 Paste

• Common elements look the same from

program to program.
 Introduction to Windows
Activity
Some Common Elements to Locate:

• Title bar
• Minimize and Close buttons
• Scroll bar
• Insertion point
• Menu bar
• Microsoft Word button on the task bar
 Introduction to Windows
The MS Office Menu Bar & Tool Bars

All menu bars have these options:

• File
• Edit
• View
• Insert
• Tools
• Window
• Help
Introduction to Windows

Activity &
Review Questions
 Introduction to Windows
Working with Files

• Create and save a document

• Opening files
• Create a folder
 Activity & Review Questions

i. Create a new folder with name css_111 and do the following:

ii. Make a word document in it.
iii. Make an Excel document in it.
iv. Make a new folder in it
v. Rename the initial folder
vi. Move the initial folder
vii. Copy the initial folder.
viii. Delete the initial folder
ix. Explore the taskbar of Windows.
x. Set the wall paper and screen saver.
xi. Set the data/time.
 Name, save, retrieve, revise a document

• Name a document (!)

• Save a document
• Retrieve a document from a flash disk
• Retrieve a document from hard disk
• Re-name a document
• Edit and re-save a document
• Print a document
• Create and name folders
• Save, open, and place documents inside folders
 Lab 2: Application Software: Microsoft Office
• Lab-2.1: Word Processing
• Word Processing Basic: An Introduction to Word Processing
and MS-Word, Working with documents, using tables, pictures,
and charts, using mail merge and sending a letter to a group of
people, creating form letters and labels, collaborating with
workgroups, modifying a report, macros.
 Lab 2:….word
• Create a word document and
• a. Put Bullets and Numbers
• b. Apply various Font parameters.
• c. Apply Left, Right, and Centre alignments.
• d. Apply hyperlinks
• e. Insert pictures
• f. Insert ClipArt
• g. Show the use of WordArt
• h. Add Borders and Shading
• i. Show the use of Find and Replace
 Lab 2:….word + Tables
a. Crate a student table and do the following:
b. Insert new row and fill data
c. Delete any existing row
d. Resize rows and columns
e. Apply border and shading
f. Apply merging/splitting of cells
g. Apply sort
h. Apply various arithmetic and logical formula
Lab-2.2: Presentation software-MS Power Point
• Creating and enhancing a presentation, creating and publishing
a web presentation, modifying a presentation, working with
visual elements, delivering a presentation and designing a
template.
• Make a presentation of University Education System using
– a. Blank Presentation
– b. From Design Template
– c. From Auto Content Wizard
 Presentation software-MS Power Point
• Make a presentation on “MY CAREER ” and apply the
following:
– a. Add audio and video effects
– b. Apply various Color Schemes
– c. Apply various animation schemes.
– d. Apply Slide Show
 Lab-2.3: Spreadsheet
• Elements of Electronics Spread Sheet and Ms-Excel: Application/usage of
Electronic Spread Sheet,
• Opening of Spread Sheet, menu bar, Creation of cells and addressing of
cells, Cell inputting.
• Manipulation of cells: Enter texts numbers and dates, Creation of tables,
Cell Height and Widths,
• Copying of cells.
• Functions: Using functions: mathematical, statistical and financial function.
• Spread sheets for Small accounting: Maintaining invoices/budgets, Totaling
of various transactions,
• maintaining daily and monthly sales reports.
• Charts: drawing different types of charts.
 MS-Excel-1
i. Create any worksheet and apply various mathematical, statistical
and financial functions, such as:
i. Compute the division of each and every student of a class.
ii. Generation of Electricity Bill
iii. Generation of Telephone Bill
iv. Generation of Salary statement of an employee
v. Generation of Mark Sheet of a student.
vi. To compute mean/median/mode.
vii. Generate graph to show the production of goods in a company during
the last five years.
viii. Compare the cost, overheads and sales figures of a company for last
three years through appropriate chart.
 MS-Excel-1
Student Reg.No. and Scores Do the following:
• Generate the following worksheet • Crate chart of the marks.
• Reg. No. Marks • Compute sum of marks using autosum,
• 2050/T.20 67 autocalculate and sum function.
• 2051/T.20 49 • Compute average of marks.
• 2052/T.20 40 • Show pass or fail if marks are above 50 or
• 2053/T.20 74 less than 50
• 2054/T.20 61 • Put header and footer in the spread sheet.
• 2055/T.20 57
• 2056/T.20 45
 Applications
• Open and work with more than one application at a time

– To switch between them for Windows: click on the application at the

"TASKBAR" down on the screen

– Alt &TAB button

Install/reinstall and update system software and
drivers
 If you remember nothing else…

You can't harm a computer by experimenting or trying

something new, so if you think you remember how to do
something, try it. The worst that can happen is that you learn
something new.
 Introduction to the Internet

Objectives:

• Describe the function and components of the

Internet.
• Use the web browsers.
• Access Web pages
• Use - Internet Explorer, Mozila firefox, Help.
• Print a Web page.
 Introduction to the Internet

What is the Internet?

• A worldwide network of computers

• Current information on almost any topic

• Communicate worldwide
 Internet Applications
BROWSERS

– Mozilla

– Internet Explorer

http: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

edu: Education (gov, org, com, ...)

http://www.vfu.bg
 Lab 4: Computer communication
• Internet: Introduction to internet and its application/services.
• Service on Internet: WWW and web-sites, Electronic mails, Communication
on Internet.
• Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator.
• Surfing the Internet: Giving the URL address, Search, Moving Around in a
web-site, Printing, or saving portion of web pages, down loading Chatting on
Internet.
• Email: Basic of electronic mail, Creating Email id, Mailbox: Inbox and outbox.
• Using Emails: Viewing an email, sending an Email, Saving mails, sending same
mail to various users, Document handling: Sending soft copy as attachment,
Enclosures to email, sending a Portion of document as email
• MS-Outlook: Read mail and news, composing message, sending and replying
e-mails, maintaining address book, finding people, attaching files.
Lab sessions: Computer communication related
practical
• Connect the Internet; open any website of your choice and
save the WebPages.
• Search any topic related to your syllabi using any search engine
and download the relevant material.
• Send any greeting card to your friend.
• Create your E-Mail ID on any free E-Mail Server.
 Login through your E-Mail ID and do the
following:
– Read your mail
– Compose a new Mail
– Send the Mail to one person
– Send the same Mail to various persons
– Forward the Mail
– Delete the Mail
– Send file as attachment
• Surf Internet using Google to find information about your Region and District
• Surf Internet using Google to find Tourism information about your Region
• Surf Internet using Yahoo to find Hotels around your city/Region
• Surf Internet using Google to find information about Fundamentals of Computer
Basics
• Surf Internet using Google to find information about Tanzania National Park
 FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• The simplest and most secure way to exchange files over the
Internet.
• FTP Client is the software that is designed to transfer files
back-and-forth between two computers over the Internet. It
needs to be installed on the computer and can only be used
with a live connection to the Internet. (Browsers, WS-Ftp, SSH,
Cute-Ftp,...)

PC ARF
Introduction to the Internet

Activity &
Review Questions
 Introduction to the Internet

Internet Explorer (IE)

• A Web browser used to navigate through pages on the Internet

• Web pages are accessed by hyperlinks or typed addresses

• A group of Web pages owned by one organization is a Web site

• The main page in a Web site is the home page

 Introduction to the Internet
Navigating Internet Explorer

The six main areas of IE are:

• Title bar
• Menu bar
• Toolbar
• Address bar
• Information bar
• Status bar
 Introduction to the Internet
Navigating Internet Explorer

The Toolbar buttons help you navigate:

• Back
• Forward
• Home
• Refresh
• Stop
• Search
• Favorites
Introduction to the Internet

Activity &
Review Questions
 Introduction to the Internet
Web browsers (IE, Mozila etc)
– Internet Explorer Favorites

• Favorites are shortcuts to pre-selected Web

sites.

• Access Favorites through the toolbar button

• Place a Web site in the Favorites folder

 Introduction to the Internet
Internet Explorer Help

• Provides information, support, and tips for

using IE
• Access Help through the menu bar
• Helpful topics include:
• Getting Started
• Taking the Tour
• Printing Information
• Saving Information
Introduction to the Internet

Activity &
Review Questions
 If you remember nothing else…

Internet Explorer is a Web browser that is used to access, view,

and navigate text and images on the World Wide Web.