Community Education > Adult Evening Program > Winter/Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes and Workshops > Computer Technology Courses

Souderton Area Community Education offers a variety of computer classes designed to meet the basic computer literacy needs of our students. Questions? Call our office (between 9:30a.m. and 4:00p.m.) 215-721-1551 and we will refer your questions to an instructor. (Gold Cards may not be used for Computer Technology Courses)

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS - FAST TRACK CLASS
Course #203
Cost: $80
Instructor: Barbara Scholl
Tuesday & Thursday (8 Sessions) 3/11-4/8/2008 (No Class: 3/20) 7:00-9:00PM each night High School - Room D-114

This user-friendly class is conducted two times a week in order to speed up your completion date. Quickly learn computer skills to enhance job performance or re-enter the work force. This basic computer class is for the totally “non-computer person”. You do not need any knowledge of a computer to do well in this class. Students will be asked to bring a Flash Drive to class – instructor will explain what to purchase in first class.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003
Course #117
Cost: $85
Instructor: Jeffrey Child
Monday (8 Sessions) 2/4-4/7/2008 (No Class: 2/18 & 3/24) 7:00-9:00 PM High School - Room D-116

Create new documents in Word (word processing) & Excel (spreadsheet). Create files, learn formatting & search & replace skills, link files between programs & text selection techniques taught. Some basic PowerPoint included. For those with some basic computer experience. Students will be asked to bring a Flash Drive (available at office supply stores) if you want to save your work.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 - ADVANCED TOPICS *NEW FORMAT*
Course #301 for all 5 sessions - see course numbers below for individual sessions
Cost: $65 for all 5 sessions
Instructor: Jeffrey Child
All Classes in this series: Wednesday Nights, 7:00-9:00 PM High School: Room D-116

Take one or all 5 sessions of this class in which you will further your abilities using Microsoft Office 2003 / Advanced Level. If you want to take all five sessions for $65, enter Course # 301 on your form. Or, enter each individual course you want to take (with its course number) on your form.

• Design & Edit Tables - February 6
  Course #302
  Cost: $18
  Learn to design and edit tables in MS Word. This function is useful for organizing your data & information in table-style.

• Graphic Enhancements - February 13
  Course # 303
  Cost: $18
  Enhance your documents by using graphics (pictures, word art, clip art, & picture editing) in your MS Word documents.

• Database Functions - February 20
  Course # 304
  Cost: $18
  Master the ability to do database functions in Excel Use spread sheets to do lists and coordinate data base information into mailing lists and merging documents & mail lists.

• PowerPoint - February 27
  Course # 305
  Cost: $18
  Learning to create your own PowerPoint programs. An effective way to teach or promote your business or product. Includes importing graphics, sound effects, and creative ways to highlight your message.

• MS Access - March 5
  Course # 306
  Cost: $18
  This database program is quite useful in sorting information, printings reports, merging data, applying filters, and more.

INTRO TO WEB DESIGN: HTML – Two Identical Courses are Offered
Course #216 Tuesday (4 Sessions) 2/5-2/26/2008
Course #115 Monday (4 Sessions) 3/3-3/31/2008 (No Class 3/24)
Cost: $50 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Each Course – 7:30-9:30PM High School – Room D-119

In today's technological world, print media is fading and the Web is a major component of communications, whether of a business or personal nature. This course introduces you to the world of web design at its most basic level: HTML. We will learn what HTML code looks like, how it works, and what tags can place what materials on the screen for us. Our efforts will culminate in a final project similar to this page: http://www.fengshweb.com/class/html. Please note: this course was previously included in the 8-week Intro to Design course. It is also a pre-requisite for the CSS course offered. If you took our Intro to Web Design course in the past you may move on to the Intermediate CSS course.

BEGINNING CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) – Three Identical Courses are Offered
Course #404 - Thursday (4 Sessions) 2/7-2/28/2008
Course #205 - Tuesday (4 Sessions) 3/4-3/25/2008
Course #309 - Wednesday (4 Sessions) 4/2-4/23/2008
Cost: $55 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Each Course – 7:30-9:30PM High School – Room D-119

While the Web is the future of media, CSS is the future of the Web. While HTML does the heavy lifting and gets all of our objects onto the web page, Cascading Style Sheets give us more control over how they display. This course will cover introductory topics, such as the way CSS integrates with HTML, the syntax of CSS and the majority of its available properties. We will also consider CSS as it relates to web browser compatibility. Our efforts will culminate in a website similar to the following: http://www.fengshweb.com/class/beginningcss.
Please note: this course was previously included in the 8-week Intro to Web Design course. It is also a pre-requisite for Intermediate CSS and Basic Web Scripting. Please be advised that students in this course will be expected to have an understanding of HTML. This can be acquired by taking the HTML course offered, or on your own.

INTERMEDIATE CSS – Three Identical Courses are Offered
Course #321 - Wednesday (4 Sessions) 3/5-3/26/2008
Course #408 - Thursday (4 Sessions) 4/3-4/24/2008
Course #215 - Tuesday (4 Sessions) 4/29-5/20/2008
Cost: $55 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Each Course – 7:30-9:30PM High School – Room D-119

Once we understand how Cascading Style Sheets can manipulate our Web sites, we can begin to understand its more advanced features. We will take our current knowledge of CSS and add to it the ability to create rollovers, remote rollovers, multiple style sheets, separate sheets for print and screen, etc. We will better understand how to combine the properties of CSS to enable its more advanced features and flexibility. The culmination of this course will result in the ability to be able to produce a page similar to: http://www.fengshweb.com/class/intcss. Please note: An understanding of CSS, whether obtained on your own, or through our Beginning CSS course, is required to be able to complete this course.

BASIC WEB SCRIPTING – Two Identical Courses are Offered
Course #204 - Tuesday (4 Sessions) 4/1-4/22/2008
Course #105 - Monday (4 Sessions) 4/28-5/19/2008
Cost: $55 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Each Course – 7:30-9:30PM High School – Room D-119

Beyond HTML and CSS coding, web pages can take on a certain level of interactivity - this interactivity is often the result of web scripting. In this course, we will begin to examine the language of JavaScript (not related to the similarly named Java language.) We will learn how to use scripting to automate the date on a webpage and to collect and store information from the user. The culmination of our efforts will allow us to enhance websites similarly to this one: http://www.fengshweb.com/class/scripting. Please note: An understanding of CSS, whether obtained on your own, or through our Beginning CSS course, is required to be able to complete this course. We will be coding very little, but to be able to correctly place and enable our scripts, we will need to be able to understand the HTML and CSS code.

DESIGN & DOMAIN – Four Identical Courses are Offered
Course #110 - Monday 2/11 and Wednesday 2/13/2008 (2 Sessions)
Course #407 - Thursday (2 Sessions) 3/6 & 3/13/2008
Course #111 - Monday (2 Sessions) 4/14 & 4/21/2008
Course #315 - Wednesday (2 Sessions) 5/7 & 5/14/2008
Cost: $36 per course
Instructor: Matt Swan
Each Course – 7:30-9:30PM High School – Room D-119

Being able to produce a Web page might be the nitty gritty of Web design, but what makes good Web design? And once we've created our masterpiece, how do we put it on the Web so that everyone else can share in its brilliance? This two-night course spends one night focused on design, exploring good and bad Web design and a 5-point foolproof method for creating usable pages. The second night is dedicated to domain, focusing on what it takes to obtain the domain you want, defining a domain reseller, the WHOIS, and taking a look both at hosting providers and FTP, so that, once your page is done, you know what to do to put it on the Web, and whose help you need in order to do so. There is no pre-requisite for this course, and can be taken even if not taking any of the other Web design courses.