LSP 121 Lecture Notes, Activities, and Homework

 

Week 1

Lecture: Intro to course and simple databases; importing a database

Activities: Activity 1 - Simple databases    Activity 2 - Importing a database

Homework 1

 

Access Database Handout (Office 2010 version)

Tips for Non-CDM students taking CDM classes (LSP 121)

 

Week 2

Lecture: Advanced databases

Activities:  Activity 3 - Relational databases    Activity 4 - Advanced queries

Homework 2

 

Week 3

Lecture: Database forms and reports

Activities: Activity 5 - Forms

               Activity 6 - Reports

               Activity 7 - Switchboard

Homework 3

 

Week 4

Lecture: Intro to statistics

Activities: Activity 8 - Statistics

Homework 4

Annotated Statistics Notes

 

Week 5

Lecture: Probability

Activities: Activity 9 - Probability

Homework 5

Annotated Probability Notes

 

Week 6

Lecture:  Midterm exam ; Correlations

Activities: Activity 10 - Correlations

Homework 6

 

Week 7

Lecture: Number systems and logs

Activities: Activity 11 - Number systems and logs

Homework 7

Binary Arithmetic Handout

 

Week 8

Lecture: Computer Algorithms

Activities: Activity 12 - Introduction to algorithms

               Activity 13 - Alice

Homework 8

Algorithms Handout

 

Week 9

Lecture: Computer algorithms continued

Activities: Activity 14 - VBA

               Activity 15 - Compression and security

Homework 9

 

Week 10

Lecture: Computer algorithms continued

Activities: Activity 16 - Data errors

No homework this week - study for the final exam!

 

Week 11

Final exam -