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Computer
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The Computer Science Department is dedicated to the task of preparing all high school students for
the challenges they will meet at the college level, as well as the
challenges of the business world. To that end any student who completes
courses in the Computer Science Department will have learned the computing
skills necessary to complete college classes. In addition, those students
will also be prepared to face the business world with computing knowledge
that will give them an opportunity for many different careers.
Beyond the requisite skills, all students will have a thorough appreciation
for moral and ethical Christian values that are needed in order to live a
fully developed Christian life.
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WEB DESIGN
This one semester course is designed to give
students a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to web design using HTML
coding. Students will learn to create documents, format texts, add
graphics, and multimedia in order to create web pages which are
representative of web design activities in the real world. Additionally,
students will work with online forms, tables, page layouts and cascading
style sheets.
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POWERPOINT
This one semester course uses a powerful
graphics program that allows the student to create professional-looking
slide presentations for use in school or business. The course covers the
basics of creating slide presentations, speaker's notes, audience handouts
and outlines. In addition, it covers creating graphs, tables, and charts
as well as customizing these presentations with text manipulation, clip art,
animation, and user-created drawings. No computer skills beyond the basics
of using a diskette and mouse are necessary.
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WORD PROCESSING
(Microsoft Office Word)
This one-semester course takes a comprehensive approach to mastering
a word processing program. It is designed to teach the student the
features that are most likely to be used in both their personal and
business life. Besides covering the basics of creating and
revising documents, this course also covers tables, merging, sorting and
outlining. No computer skills beyond the basics of using a
diskette and mouse are necessary.
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DATABASE APPLICATIONS
(Microsoft Office Access)
This one-semester course covers the basic concepts and usage of
databases. It teaches a relational database management system that
allows the student to access comprehensive information about businesses
and individuals. Once accessed, the student can request certain
specific information in various formats to aid in creating
reports. It also covers creating a new database and adding
user-defined tables, queries, forms, and reports. This course will
give the student the necessary skills to create and use a database in
the home/college/office environment. No computer skills beyond the
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SPREADSHEET
APPLICATIONS (Microsoft Office Excel)
This one-semester course takes a comprehensive approach to mastering
a spreadsheet program which gives the student the ability to perform
business and scientific calculations electronically. It is
designed to teach the student the features that are most likely to be
used in both their personal and business life. Besides covering
the basics of creating and editing a worksheet, topics covered will be
using formulas, financial functions, multiple worksheets and
charting. No computer skills beyond the basics of using a diskette
and mouse are necessary.
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HONORS PASCAL
PROGRAMMING
This is an honors level full-year course available only to
seniors. It is an introduction to a highly structured, advanced
computer programming language. It instructs the student in many of
the basic programming constructs used by all programming
languages. This course stresses extensive, independent program
writing covering all aspects of programming from basic commands to
advanced manipulation of arrays, records, files and matrices.
Prerequisite: Algebra 2 and teacher of course approval |
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