TNCC Classes - Greg DiGiorgio

Welcome. This web page lists courses that Greg DiGiorgio has taught over the years at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, VA. I have updated this page to include all courses in the hopes that former students will benefit.

I taught mostly programming courses, so you will see links to Pascal, C, VB, etc. I also taught office automation courses like Windows, MS-DOS, and MS-Office which I will also include here.

Because of the sheer volume of material (more than will fit in the 25MB allotted on this WWW site), it may take me awhile to comb through everything and upload what you need.

Where applicable, I have included final exams, answer keys, project handouts and solutions, and programming handouts.

Greg December, 1999

Contents

Visual BASIC Programming

Note: I have a lot of stuff for these classes that I simply do not have time to upload.

• IST176-41A, Visual BASIC - I, Fall 1999 (all downloads are in MS-Word ('95 and '97 format))

This course is the first of 2 courses in Visual BASIC and is intended for beginning to intermediate programmers who want a quick and easy way into Windows programming. Although you do not need a programming background for this class, you should be able to use Windows fairly well.
• Syllabus
• Homework #1 - Using VB Help
• Homework #2 - Loops
• Homework #3 - Functions
• Homework #4 - Arrays and Control Arrays
• Homework #5 - Printer and Graphics Objects
• Project #1 - Simple TextBox application
• Project #2 - Cash Register simulation
• Project #3 - Library Check-in/out simulation
• Project #4 - Graphics application
• Project #5 - Notepad application
• IST276-xxA, Visual BASIC - II (all downloads are in MS-Word ('95 and '97 format))

This course is the second of 2 courses in Visual BASIC and is intended for the intermediate VB programmer who needs guidance on various aspects of Windows-based programming including: database programming, COM programming for inter-application communications, defining objects with VB, and several other topics.

Students should know how to use Visual BASIC and be proficient in introductory VB programming.

Intro to the WWW

• IST128-51A, Introduction to Internet Services, Fall 1999 (all downloads are in MS-Word format)

This course is intended for beginning computer users who want to learn the basics of how to use the Internet. In this course we will learn how to Surf the 'Net, send/receive email, use newsgroups and listservers, and the basics of HTML.
• Syllabus
• Handouts and in-class exercises:
• Listserver commands, examples, exercise
• Newsgroup searching handout in prep for project #4
• WWW Scavenger Hunt
• HTML commands handout
• HTML in-class exercise handout
• FTP/Gopher search exercise
• Project #4 - web-based personnel profile

HTML-I

• IST129-42A, HTML-I, Fall 1999 (all downloads are in MS-Word format)

This course is intended for students who are already familiar with the WWW and who want to learn the basics of how to create and publish WWW pages. There is NO programming required, but you will set up your own web site on the Internet. Don't worry, it's free!
• Syllabus
• Home Site V1.2 HTML Editor, 500K self-extracting file
• Sample HTML handout for chapters 1, 2, and 3
• How to use Homepage.Com
• HTML handout for chapter 4: Text Basics
• Chapter 5 - Rules, Images, and Multi-media:
• HTML handout: Rules, Images, and Multi-media
• HTML handout for maps
• HTML handout for BODY tag attributes
• WWW sites for FREE WAV/sound files:
• Funny, a little racy at times, .WAV format
• Listing of WWW sites with FREE sound files
• Well organized with lots of WAV files
• Another site with links to other WWW sites
GIF files:
• What is an Interlaced GIF?
• Interlaced GIF example
• What is a Transparent GIF?
• Transparent GIF tutorial
• Transparent GIF example
• What is an Animated GIF?
• Shareware Image Editor
• Nice WWW site of WWW sites
Free Graphics sites:
• Free graphics site #1
• Chapter 6 and 7 handout
• Chapter 8: Lists
• Chapter 9: Cascading Style Sheets
• Chapter 10: Forms
• Chapter 11: Tables
• Chapter 12: Frames
• Multimedia on the WWW
• Chapter 13: Embedded Content
• Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
• HTML Challenge for end of semester
• Projects:
• Project #2 - Covers chapters 2 - 3 (09/02/99)
• Project #3 - Covers chapters 4,5,6,7(09/27/99)
• Project #4 - Covers chapters 8-12 (10/29/99)

Microsoft Office

• IST117-41A, Introduction to Microcomputer Software (MS-Office), Fall 1999 (all downloads are in MS-Word format)

This course is intended for beginning computer users who want to learn the basics of how to use a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and slide show software.
• Syllabus
• MS-Excel Handout
• MS-Powerpoint handout
• MS-Powerpoint raw presentation

Pascal Programming

• Pascal Programming (defunct as of 1998)

This course was intended for beginning programming students, though we went well beyond the Introduction to Programming course that used DOS-based BASIC.

In this course, I taught structured programming concepts to provide generally applicable programming skills to students in preparation for courses in C/C++, Visual BASIC, etc.

• Hope to get around to indexing some of the stuff in the near future

Geographic Information Systems

• No class, just some miscellaneous stuff(all downloads are in text format or binary DOS executables)

Alas, I prepped to teach an Intro to GIS class, but too few folks signed up for it.
• MS-DOS based 'C' program to produce a hierarchy of an AML program for AML programmers. Specifically, this program produces two listings: <>
  1. a line-numbered listing of the AML being analyzed (tree.out)
  2. a listing of the AML being analyzed, including all of its routines and which routines they call with line numbers as well as any external AML's it calls and system commands it uses (your re-directed output file name)

  Click here for a sample of the numbered output listing and here for a sample of the subroutine hierarchy listing.

  To run the program, TREE.EXE, you must supply a command line parameter to ID the AML to be analyzed. For example:

  tree d:\arcexe72\arctools\aelib\logica~1.aml > tree.txt

  Since the program was compiled with a 16-bit DOS compiler, you must use 8.3 file names for the input file name (logica~1.aml). The same program compiled under UNIX or a 32-bit DOS compiler works fine with long file names, but I have included only the 16-bit compiled version, so use short file names. The program writes to standard out, meaning that you must redirect the output to a disk file to get the hierarchy listing as shown above. The program automatically produces the line-numbered listing to tree.out.

  To download the source and/or excecutable, click on the following links:

  • 'C' source code
  • MS-Dos executable file

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