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Spreadsheets

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Spreadsheets can be used for many applications from financial book-keeping to statistics. Spreadsheets are more than just rows and columns, a well designed spreadsheet should be “dynamic”. This feature of a spreadsheet means it will change and adapt according to the data input. If the data changes, so too does the results the spreadsheet calculates. […]

Databases

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Year 9,
 To start this year we will be working with DBMS’s. Our first task will be to create a simple database of the class students. We will talk more about that next lesson. For now I would like you to have a look at the page “What is a Database?” (link on the right).