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From Microsoft to Malawi : learning on the front lines as a Peace Corps volunteer / by Buckler, Michael L.(CARDINAL)594428; Gift in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps (Library of Congress)DLC(CARDINAL)398348;
In this compelling narrative, Michael L. Buckler draws readers into the challenging, yet rewarding world of the Peace Corps. Inspired by his journals, the book recounts his life as a Peace Corps teacher after a heartbreaking divorce and a demanding legal career prompted him to make a change. Assigned to a village school in Malawi, Buckler opens his tiny home to three boys, embarking with them on a journey of cross-cultural discovery, personal sacrifice, and transformative growth. Determined to help his village, Buckler collaborates with community leaders to build a boarding school for girls. As momentum builds, a powerful bureaucrat tries to shut down the project and Buckler becomes discouraged. As he agonizes over whether to leave, the village takes matters into its own hands in a moving display of the persistent, courageous spirit of Malawi. -- Cover, p. 4.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Case studies.; Buckler, Michael L.; Peace Corps (U.S.); Peace Corps (U.S.); Community development; Schools; Schools; Volunteers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Microsoft Visual C# step by step / by Sharp, J. A.,(John A.),1955-author.;
Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2017. Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2017. If you are an experienced software developer,you'll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere... Discover how to: *Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual Studio 2017 *Work with variables, operators, expressions, methods, and program flow *Build more robust apps with error, exception, and resource management *Spot problems fast with the Visual Studio debugger *Make the most of improvements to C# methods, parameters, and switch statements *Master the C# object model, and create your own functional data structures *Leverage advanced properties, indexers, generics, and collection classes *Create Windows 10 apps that share data, collaborate, and use cloud services *Integrate Cortana to voice-enable your applications *Perform complex queries over object collections with LINQ *Improve application throughput and response time with asynchronous methods *Use delegates and decoupling to construct highly extensible systems *Customize C# operator behavior over your own classes and structures *Streamline development with app templates *Implement the powerful Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern *Develop cloud-connected applications that seamlessly follow users across devices *Build UWP applications that retrieve complex data via REST and present it intuitively.
Subjects: Microsoft Visual C♯; Object-oriented programming (Computer science); Computer programming.; C# (Computer program language); Visual programming (Computer science);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Business financial planning with Microsoft Excel / by Powell, Gavin,author.(CARDINAL)276117;
Chapter 1 In the Beginning -- 1.1 From Problem to Solution -- 1.2 Introducing the Case Study: BDaaSB -- 1.2.1 Where to Begin -- 1.2.2 Competitors -- 1.2.3 Loading and Analytics -- 1.2.4 Value in Presentation -- 1.2.5 Flexibility and Added-Value Spin-Offs -- 1.2.6 A Problem to Solve -- 1.2.7 Security -- 1.3 Tools, Processes, and Flow in This Book -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Your Business Goals -- 2.1 Mission and Vision to Core Business Values -- 2.2 Core Business Values to SWOT Matrix -- 2.3 SWOT Matrix to SWOT Matrix Response -- 2.4 SWOT Matrix Response to Strategic Goals and SMART Objectives -- 2.4.1 Mapping Strategy over Time -- 2.4.2 SMART Objectives Is a Schedule of Events -- 2.4.3 Executing and Achieving SMART Objectives -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 2.6 The Spreadsheet So Far -- Chapter 3 Predicting Expenses with SMART Objectives -- 3.1 Revisiting SMART Objectives -- 3.2 Assessing Labor Costs -- 3.2.1 Business Cycle Timeline Structure -- 3.2.2 Specific Labor Requirements and Labor Costs -- 3.3 Equipment and Fixed-Asset Costs -- 3.3.1 Adding to Financial Statements -- 3.4 General Costs and Expenses -- 3.4.1 Legal Costs and Requirements -- 3.4.2 Other Expenses -- 3.4.3 Adding to Financial Statements -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 3.6 The Spreadsheet So Far -- Chapter 4 Predicting Sales Using Your Competitors -- 4.1 Generating Pricing Strategy with Marketing Analysis Tools -- 4.1.1 STEEP (Competitive Market Industry) Analysis -- 4.1.2 Porter's 5 Forces -- 4.2 Competitors -- Who and Why? -- 4.2.1 Competitors for the BDaaSB Case Study -- 4.3 Marketing Strategy and The 4 PS -- 4.3.1 Product, Price, and Sales Revenue Forecasting -- 4.3.2 Promotion, Place, and the Beginnings of Marketing Expenses -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 4.5 The Spreadsheet So Far -- Chapter 5 Predicting Marketing Costs -- 5.1 Market and Industry Segmentation -- 5.1.1 Market Segmentation -- 5.1.2 Industry Segmentation -- 5.2 Marketing Costing and Budgeting -- 5.2.1 Sales-Lead Generation Cost -- 5.2.2 Continuing Sales Forecasting from Chapter 4 -- 5.2.3 Marketing Costs Estimate -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 5.4 The Spreadsheet So Far -- Chapter 6 Formal Financial Planning and Budgeting -- 6.1 Startup Balance Sheet -- 6.2 Schedule of Startup Expenses -- 6.3 Proforma Income Statement -- 6.3.1 Quarterly One-Year Proforma Income Statement -- 6.3.2 Quarterly Two-Year Proforma Income Statement -- 6.3.3 Annualized Five-Year Proforma Income Statement -- 6.4 Proforma Balance Sheet -- 6.4.1 Adding to the Balance Sheet -- 6.5 Returning to the Income Statement -- 6.6 Proforma Cash-Flow Projection -- 6.6.1 What's in the Cash-Flow Projection? -- 6.6.2 Quarterly Two-Year Proforma Cash-Flow Projection -- 6.6.3 Annual Five-Year Proforma Cash-Flow Projection -- 6.7 Final BDaaSB Financial Statements -- 6.8 Final Financials for Your Business Idea -- 6.9 Conclusion -- 6.10 The Spreadsheet So Far."Business Finance Planning with Microsoft® Excel® shows how to visualise, plan, and put into motion an idea for creating a start-up company. Microsoft Excel is a tool that makes it easier to build a business financial planning process for a new business venture. With an easy-to follow structure, the book flows as a six-step process: Presenting a case study of a business start-up: Creating goals and objectives, Determining expenses from those goals and objectives, Estimating potential sales revenue based on what competitors charge their customers, Predicting marketing costs, Finalising the financial analysis with a of financial statements. Written around an IT startup case study, the book presents a host of Excel worksheets describing the case study along with accompanying blank forms. Readers can use these forms in their own businesses, so they can build parts of their own business plans as they go. This is intended to be a practical guide that teaches and demonstrates by example, in the end presenting a usable financial model to build and tweak a financial plan with a set of customisable Excel worksheets. The book uses practical techniques to help with the planning processing. These include applying a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) matrix to evaluate a business idea and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) objectives to link together goals. As the book concludes, readers will be able to develop their own income statement, balance sheet, and the cash-flow statement for a full analysis of their new business ideas." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Microsoft Excel (Computer file); Business enterprises; Electronic spreadsheets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Making simple robots : easy robotics projects for kids using everyday stuff / by Ceceri, Kathy,author.(CARDINAL)589914;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Making Simple Robots is based on the idea that anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, educators, parents, and anyone who didn't make it to engineering school. If you can cut, fold, and tape a piece of paper to make a tube or a box, you can build a no-tech robotic part. In fact, many of the models in this book are based upon real-life prototypes -- working models created in research labs and companies. What's more, if you can use the apps on your smartphone, you can quickly learn to tell robots what to do using free, online, beginner-level software like MIT's Scratch and Microsoft MakeCode. The projects in this book which teach you about electric circuits by making jumping origami frogs with eyes that light up when you get them ready to hop. You'll practice designing all-terrain robot wheel-legs with free, online Tinkercad software, and you'll create files ready for 3D printing. You'll also learn to sew -- and code -- a cyborg rag doll with a blinking electronic "eye." Each project includes step-by-step directions and clear illustrations and photographs. Along the way, you'll learn about the real research behind the DIY version, find shortcuts for making projects easier when needed, and get suggestions for adding to the challenge as your skill set grows"--Amazon.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Robots;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Microsoft Excel 2019 formulas and functions / by McFedries, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)367649;
Mastering Excel formulas. Building basic formulas ; Creating advanced formulas ; Troubleshooting formulas -- Harnessing the power of functions. Understanding functions ; Working with text functions ; Working with logical and information functions ; Working with lookup functions ; Working with date and time functions ; Working with math functions -- Building business formulas. Implementing basic business formulas ; Building descriptive statistical formulas ; Building inferential statistical formulas ; Applying regression to track trends and make forecasts ; Building loan formulas ; Working with investment formulas ; Building discout formulas -- Building business models. Analyzing data with tables ; Analyzing data with PivotTables ; Using Excel's business modeling tools ; Solving complex problems with Solver."Expert Paul McFedries helps you master key Excel 2019 and Office 365 tools for building more powerful spreadsheets. Use Excel 2019 and Office 365 core features to build spreadsheets that solve business problems and deliver reliable answers. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Paul McFedries helps you make the most of formulas and functions, including the latest improvements to arrays, formula error handling, and statistics. McFedries's step-by-step projects walk you through handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions demystify intermediate- to advanced-level formula construction, and help you leverage Excel's most useful functions in your everyday work. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! By reading this book, you will: Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your models; Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions; Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365's new dynamic arrays; Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities; Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization schedules; Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve investment goals; Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including net present value and internal rate of return; Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory; Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations. About This Book: For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time; For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data." -- ONIX annotation.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Microsoft Excel (Computer file); Business; Electronic spreadsheets.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Financial modeling in Excel / by Fairhurst, Danielle Stein,Author(DLC)no2012145571;
Turn your financial data into insightful decisions with this straightforward guide to financial modeling with Excel Interested in learning how to build practical financial models and forecasts but concerned that you don't have the math skills or technical know-how? We've got you covered! Financial decision-making has never been easier than with Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies. Whether you work at a mom-and-pop retail store or a multinational corporation, you can learn how to build budgets, project your profits into the future, model capital depreciation, value your assets, and more. You'll learn by doing as this book walks you through practical, hands-on exercises to help you build powerful models using just a regular version of Excel, which you've probably already got on your PC. You'll also: *Master the tools and strategies that help you draw insights from numbers and data you've already got *Build a successful financial model from scratch, or work with and modify an existing one to your liking *Create new and unexpected business strategies with the ideas and conclusions you generate with scenario analysis Don't go buying specialized software or hiring that expensive consultant when you don't need either one. If you've got this book and a working version of Microsoft Excel, you've got all the tools you need to build sophisticated and useful financial models in no time!
Subjects: Microsoft Excel (Computer file); Finance; Investment analysis.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Microsoft Office for the older and wiser : get up and running with office 2010 and office 2007 / by McManus, Sean,1973-(CARDINAL)421700;
Starting your holiday spreadsheet. -- Calculating the quantities. -- Calculating the total cost for each item. -- Converting the currency. -- Writing your own formulae. -- Using your spreadsheet to plan your holiday. -- Adding a holiday countdown. -- Protecting your privacy with encryption. -- Copying your budget into your itinerary in Word. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 6 - Creating personalised party invitations using Excel and Word. -- What is mail merge? -- Creating the standard invitation. -- Preparing your invitees list. -- Selecting recipients in Word. -- Selecting which rows of your spreadsheet to use. -- Adding names to your invitation. -- Previewing your invitations. -- Adding conditional content. -- Creating your fi nished invitations. -- Creating your mailing labels. -- What else can you do? -- Part III - Using Offi ce to Organise and Share Your Photos and Ideas. -- Chapter 7 - Creating a slide show of your holiday photos using PowerPoint. -- What is PowerPoint? -- Starting a new PowerPoint document. -- Previewing or showing your slide show. -- Familiarising yourself with the PowerPoint interface. -- Deleting a slide. -- Adding a new slide. -- Adding transitions and animations. -- Creating an instant photo album. -- Enabling automatic playback of your slide show. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 8 - Keeping a recipe book with OneNote. -- Understanding the OneNote screen. -- Creating a new notebook for your recipes. -- How OneNote saves your work. -- Creating the tabs for your notebook. -- Adding your recipes. -- Capturing recipes from the Internet. -- Searching your recipes by ingredient. -- Printing recipes. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 9 - Using email to share your ideas and documents. -- What is email? -- Setting up email on your PC. -- Reading your emails in Windows Live Mail. -- Replying to emails and sending new emails. -- Emailing your Microsoft Office files. -- What else can you do? -- Part IV - Appendices. -- Appendix A -Using keyboard shortcuts. -- Appendix B - Glossary.Machine generated contents note: Introduction. -- What is Microsoft Office? -- How this book is structured. -- What you will need. -- Familiarising yourself with the keyboard and the mouse. -- Choosing the right application for the job. -- Part I - Using Microsoft Word. -- Chapter 1 - Writing a letter with Microsoft Word. -- Starting Word. -- Saving your work. -- Writing your letter. -- Making changes to what you've written. -- Deleting text. -- Moving text around. -- Changing the appearance of your letter. -- Clearing formatting and undoing mistakes. -- Adding your address to your letter. -- Checking your spelling. -- Printing your letter. -- Finishing your Word session. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 2 - Creating a poster with Microsoft Word. -- Starting a new document with a template. -- Changing the view. -- Changing the text in your template. -- Inserting pictures in your poster. -- Inserting clip art in your poster. -- Printing your poster. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 3 - Publishing a newsletter with Word. -- Planning your newsletter. -- Creating dummy text. -- Choosing your paper size. -- Creating a title for your newsletter. -- Adding your fi rst story. -- Getting a sense of style. -- Laying out your text in columns. -- Arranging your images. -- Advanced layout options. -- Adding the rest of your stories. -- Adding a table of contents. -- More to explore. -- Download my example newsletter. -- What else can you do? -- Part II - Using Microsoft Excel. -- Chapter 4 - Managing your address book with Excel. -- What is a spreadsheet? -- Navigating the spreadsheet. -- Saving your spreadsheet. -- Organising your information into rows and columns. -- How much information to put into each cell? -- Putting the headers into your address book. -- Entering your friends into your address book. -- Finding people in your address book. -- Printing your address book. -- What else can you do? -- Chapter 5 - Creating a basic holiday budget in Excel. --"Are you new to Microsoft Office software? Looking for instructions that aren't full of complicated computing terms? Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser can answer all of your queries with its straightforward advice and easy-to-follow layout on using both Office 2010and Office 2007. Completely jargon-free and aimed at those wishing to extend their computing knowledge, Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser will have you producing documents in Word, spreadsheets in Excel, slideshows in PowerPoint, and emails in Windows Live Mail in no time. Learn how to: Type and format a letter Create an address book Produce personalised invitations Publish a newsletter Form a basic holiday budget Create a photo slideshow Keep a digital recipe book Share and develop ideas over the Internet U3A is a self-help, learning cooperative for those no longer in full-time, gainful employment. Members come together to share their love of learning through educational, creative and leisure activities. U3A offer their members a wide choice of 300+ subjects in areas such as art, foreign languages, music, history, life sciences, literature, poetry, gardening, philosophy, crafts, field studies, archaeology, astronomy and computing. Currently there are over 230,000 members and more than 740 local U3A groups in the UK. Visit U3A online at www.u3a.org.uk"--"The book is a step by step, jargon-free guide which clearly explains how to get started in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote using real-life projects and examples to help you get to grips with Office 2010"--
Subjects: Microsoft Office.; Computers and older people.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Head first C♯ / by Stellman, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)549578; Greene, Jennifer,1971-author.(CARDINAL)549660;
Head First C# is a complete learning experience for learning how to program with C#, XAML, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. Fun and highly visual, this introduction to C# is designed to keep you engaged and entertained from first page to last. Updated for Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013, and includes projects for all previous versions of Windows (included in the book, no additional downloading or printing required). You'll build a fully functional video game in the opening chapter, and then learn how to use classes and object-oriented programming, draw graphics and animation, and query data with LINQ and serialize it to files. And you'll do it all by creating games, solving puzzles, and doing hands-on projects. By the time you're done, you'll be a solid C# programmer-and you'll have a great time along the way! Create a fun arcade game in the first chapter, and build games and other projects throughout the book Learn how to use XAML to design attractive and interactive pages and windows Build modern Windows Store apps using the latest Microsoft technology Learn WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) using the downloadable WPF Learner's Guide Using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to create robust architecture Build a bonus Windows Phone project and run it in the Visual Studio Windows Phone emulator Projects in the book work with all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Express editions.
Subjects: C# (Computer program language);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The story of West Asheville [electronic resource] : people, places, events / by Perkins, David.(CARDINAL)754703; West Asheville History Project.;
Narrator: David Perkins.Presents a variety of information about West Asheville. The narration gives an overview of the history of the area. More than 150 photos and paintings show West Asheville in the past and present.CD-ROM.System requirements: PC with Microsoft Windows 98 or Windows XP, a 300Mhz or faster processor, and at least a 16X CD-Rom drive; or a MAC with OS 9.2 or greater operating system and at least 16X CD-ROM drive.
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Designs for science literacy. by Project 2061 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)(CARDINAL)325822;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.CD-ROM contains: electronic version of the text; information resources, databases and utilities (incl. Macromedia Shockwave Player and Macromedia Flash Player software).System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, or 2000 and Macintosh System 7.6 or later.
Subjects: Science; Mathematics; Engineering;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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