Students' Guide to Spreadsheets - Brossura

Sinclair, Ian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0434918881 ISBN 13: 9780434918881

Casa editrice: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990

Riassunto

Part of a series giving up-to-date coverage of significant developments in information technology, this book introduces the spreadsheet, a wide-ranging microcomputer application, appropriate for student use and illustrates the capabilities of typical spreadsheets across subject boundaries. In order to play down the usual financial image of the spreadsheet, the unusual approach has been taken of introducing the spreadsheet as a text manipulating program, with text placed into rows and columns. This introduces the basic principles of working in cells and permits the user to build up familiarity with the program without becoming lost in numerical analysis. It also allows the gradual development of the subject in an easy, non-mathematical way.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ian Sinclair was born in 1932 in Tayport, Fife, and graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 1956. In that year, he joined the English Electric Valve Co. in Chelmsford, Essex, to work on the design of specialised cathode-ray tubes, and later on small transmitting valves and TV transmitting tubes. In 1966, he became an assistant lecturer at Hornchurch Technical College, and in 1967 joined the staff of Braintree College of F.E. as a lecturer. His first book, “Understanding Electronic Components” was published in 1972, and he has been writing ever since, particularly for the novice in Electronics or Computing. The interest in computing arose after seeing a Tandy TRS80 in San Francisco in 1977, and of his 204 published books, about half have been on computing topics, starting with a guide to Microsoft Basic on the TRS80 in 1979. He left teaching in 1984 to concentrate entirely on writing, and has also gained experience in computer typesetting, particularly for mathematical texts. He has recently visited Seattle to see Microsoft at work, and to remind them that he has been using Microsoft products longer than most Microsoft employees can remember. Ian Sinclair is the author of the following Made Simple books: Lotus 1-2-3- (2.4 DOS version) MS-DOS (up to version 6.22) PagePlus for Windows 3.1 Hard drives He is also the author of many other books published under our Newnes imprint.Visit Ian's website at http://website.lineone.net/~ian_sinclair

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0434918881
• ISBN 13: 9780434918881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192