Glencoe's Computer Concepts in Action is intended to meet the needs of secondary students and teachers. This highly visual text teaches essential computer concepts and skills through hands-on... This description may be from another edition of this product.
conveys the rudiments to a reader with short attention span
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The treatment in the book is directed at getting high schoolers to learn useful computer skills. As opposed perhaps to playing games or downloading music. It teaches the student the basics of several of the packages in the Microsoft Office suite. Word, for typing and editing essays. PowerPoint for presenting stuff at meetings. Excel for spreadsheets. These are now seen as basic computer literacy skills. The approach may seem forced to some readers. The brightly coloured pages and screen shots are meant to captivate the reader. Clearly aimed at a reader with a limited attention span. But students for which this is not an issue might want a more detailed text.
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