This course is half theory and half hands-on application using Microsoft Office. It includes word processing, spreadsheets, databases and some work with the Internet. This course provides the knowledge and understanding necessary to communicate effectively in the personal computing environment of business today. This course aids in the understanding of the design and production of web sites. It discusses what design elements go into web page development.
Students browse sites and identify good design elements.
They construct their own web page early on and work on it throughout the semester. This course aids the nonprogrammer in the understanding of multimedia authoring, incorporating text, graphics, sound and video. It discusses design and planning elements that go into multimedia development. Students use Director and some of the scripting language, Lingo, to choreograph media objects onto a stage using a score. An introduction to programming logic using the programming language Pascal.