Week 2: Application Skills

Lecture

The lecturer today talked about common pc tasks such as file handling, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, internet access, e-mail and view PDF files. The lecturer then went into detail about how each common pc task are used and what common program is used to fullfil this task.

According to browser statistics- January 2008:

• Internet explorer - 54.7%
• Firefox - 37.2%
• The Monzilla Suite - 1.3%
• Safari - 1.9%
• Opera - 1.4%

We were also given some example blogs at the lecture.

Task

In tutorial we had to complete exercises for word and excel.

I found that the microsoft word exercise was very interesting, as I learnt about features that I havn't used before.

I found the excel exercise was very easy compared to the word exercises, as I have used the features needed to complete the task before already.