CS 150L - Computing for Business Students Computer Science Department University of New Mexico

Course Description
Computing for Business Students The greater part of this course is about developing the spreadsheet skills needed for success in upper level Anderson School of Management courses. In particular, the focus is on reading a word problem, extracting the assumptions, using Microsoft Excel to represent those assumptions, using Excel to solve the problem in such a way that changing any one of the assumptions automatically changes all results that depend on that assumption, and representing all of this in a clear and professional format. While the applications and examples used in this course all relate to business, these are spreadsheet skills that apply to many disciplines.

Students enrolling in Computing for Business Students are expected to already have mastered basic computer literacy skills. The course, does however, fill in some possible gaps such as structured page layouts using Microsoft Word, best practices for using e-mail communication, and some Microsoft PowerPoint features.

Computing for Business Students is offered in both the fall and spring semesters as a traditional Lecture/Lab course and also as an on-line course. The traditional Lecture/Lab course is usually also offered during the summer session.

Instructor:
Joel Castellanos , Department of Computer Science

• "Computing for Management Students, 3rd edition" by Joel Castellanos and Laurie Schatzberg. Pearson Learning Solutions.
  This is packaged with MyItLab software License. ISBN-13 9781256718734 (Software/Textbook package).
  Available at the UNM bookstore. MyItLab is only fully supported for Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista or 7) running Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9. Students with MacOS have gotten MyItLab to work, but required making various adjustments (i.e. Macs do not have all the same keyboard keys and mouse buttons described in the software instructions. Available at the UNM bookstore.



• MyitLab software License. This is packaged with the textbook.
  


• Microsoft Office 2003 or newer. Work must be done using Microsoft Office. Work done using OpenOffice, Google Docs, WordPerfect or other software products is not acceptable!
  


• Microsoft Windows XP or newer. MS Office will run on MacOS, but MyitLab will only run in Windows XP or newer. Thus, you will be able to do most of the work using MacOS, but for each of the MyitLab assignments you will need access to a Windows PC with Internet access.
  


• Internet access.Dial-up will work - of course, it is nice to have a faster connection.
  


• USB Flash Drive (128MB or more.)
  


• Microsoft Office®, free Internet tutorials. Available for MS Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 on the Web at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx
  

Registration Notes Completion of Math 120 (Intermediate Algebra) with a passing grade is a strict prerequisite requirement for CS-150. Any one of the more advanced mathematics courses offered at UNM including Math 121, Math 123, Math 150, Math 162, Math 163, Math 180 or Math 181 will fulfill this prerequisite requirement. Alternatively, an ACT≥22 or SAT≥510 will fulfill this prerequisite requirement. If you have fulfilled the mathematics prerequisite at a different institution, then you will need to contact Lynne Jacobsen, the Computer Science department Coordinator of Program Advisement via e-mail at csinfo@cs.unm.edu. Explain the situation and send your UNM student ID number along with the course number and section into which you want to register. With your permission in e-mail, Lynne can check your transcript through LoboWeb to verify that you have successfully completed the prerequisite mathematics and override the registration error. The subject line of the e-mail should be: CS-150 registration error.

Lecture Notes:

1. Introduction to CS-150
2. MyItLab Course Number and Troubleshooting