CGS 1100 General Notes

When working on the hands-on exercises in the text:

• Remember that the objective of the exercises is to gain knowledge and experience. It is not to simply get through the chapter as quickly as possible. First read about the steps that you are about to perform. Then try them. Then stop and consider what you've learned.
• You will discover that the computers in our classrooms and labs are configured differently than other computers that you might use to practice. The college has disabled some features that are likey to cause problems for students. Therefore, you may find that some of the exercises in the book do not work on our computers. If this happens, continue your reading, but skip the keyboard steps for that exercise in the book.
• Although the authors have gone to great lengths to eliminate any errors in their textbook, you might encounter one occasionally. If you think that you have, review your previous steps and try them again. If they still don't seem to work, note the problem in you book and skip ahead to the next steps that do seem to work.
• Whenever the textbook instructs you to print something, don't. Let's save some trees. Read about the process of printing, but instead of clicking on the OK button when instructed to print, click on the Cancel button instead.
• If you are still in the middle of an exercise when a class session is over, make a note (where you can find it easily) of what page your were on in the book and the name of any data file and/or folder that you were using at the time. Then save the file and log out of Windows.
• Don't forget to switch-off the monitor screen of your computer system when you are done. It does not turn off automatically with the processor.

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