Argument

• An Argument in computer programming, is a parameter is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine.

Application software

• An Application software is a program that performs a task or process specific to a particular enduser's needs, or solves a particular problem.

Animations

• An Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.

Anchor

• An Anchor is some sort of HTML tag that specifies links to text or images on the same page or to a specific location on a different page top of page.

American Psychological Association (APA)

• An American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the U.S. and is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 152,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students.

Alignment

• An Alignment is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell or tab.

ActiveX controls

• An ActiveX controls are small programs that add dynamic and interactive features to Web pages.

Active Cell

• An Active Cell is the cell that is currently highlighted (chosen) and ready to receive or manipulate data.

Absolute cell reference

• An Absolute Cell Reference in a formula that does not change when the formula is copied elsewhere. It absolutely always stays the same. Usually has $ sign in front of the row and column references. 

Lab 3

                    

• Well the first thing i did was write it in Microsoft Word Document and typed my name and went to the TAB INSERT and pressed WORD ART. Second, I used the font COMIC SANS MS and changed my style font to change and put my design and i changed my texture, and the color of the JPG file.Then i changed the shadow using 3D SHADOW. I also changed the place of the text and  put it in the middle.Then i prssed CTRL+A and copied using the command CTRL+P. Then i pasted it on Microsoft PowerPoint and then i clicked format on PowerPoint and used anchor point and made it bigger. Then i moved the text in too the middle. Than i saved my work into file JPG .

3-D Pie Chart

• 3-D Pie Chart is a 3-D circular graph having radii dividing the circle into sectors proportional in angle and area to the relative size of the quantities represented. 

Lab 2 Common Skills

• What happens when you press the Alt key and Tab key together the programs switch to another opened program.First, when you press Ctrl v on Word Document, your text in the will copy and paste. Its a shortcut key for copy and pasting your documents text. Next to change your stlye text, you go to Font and choose which font style you would like to add to your text and to change font size you'll see a box with number's next to font,highlight your text to change size. Also, if you like to change the font size by two times the number you had press the box with the capital A and highlight your text to change your font size. Same goes for the lower case A to make the font size 2 times smaller than you choosed. Next if you want to add bullets or number to each paragraph you got to paragraph and look for the box icon with bullets and numbers and click it to add it to your text. Now if you want to change your space of your text look for the icon with an arrow and lines and click which number you want to change your text, like 1.0, 2.0 etc.

Word-processing software

• Word-processing software is a computer software program used to create and edit text documents.

Wizard

• Wizard is a user interface element that presents a user with a sequence of dialog boxes that lead the user through a series of well-defined steps.

Windows Explorer

• Windows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems.

Window

• Window is a visual area containing some kind of user interface.

Wildcard characters

• A Wildcard character is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.

Wide area networks (WANs)

• Wide area networks (WANs) is a computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries.

Virus

• A Virus is a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer.

Utility software

• Utility Software is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer.

User Interface

• User interface is a term which refers to the way a program presents itself to a user. For example, an active window is a user interface.

Unix

• Unix is a multi-user operating system that was used to create most of the programs and protocols that built the Internet.

USB

• USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller.

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)

• Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source.

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving most often applied to repair of failed products or processes. 

Tree pane

• A Tree pane shows the members of the ACP Thin Client Network in an expandable tree.

Toolbar

• Toolbars are rows, column, or block of on screen buttons or icons that, when clicked, activate certain functions of the program. Ordinarily found across the top border of a program window.

Title bar

• A Title bar is the text and content of the main header area will change depending on which screen you may be accessing but the thinner, pale blue area never changes, and this is the area to pay attention to.

Teleconference

• A Teleconference  is a live exchange and mass articulation of information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system.

Telecommunications

• Telecommunications is the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph.

Technology

• Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, and crafts, or is systems or methods of organization.

Taskbar

• A Taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications.

Systems software

• A Systems software is a computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide and maintain a platform for running application software.

System Clock

• A System Clock is a time-of-day clock in a computer system.

Surge protectors

•  A Surge protector is an appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes.

Supercomputers

• Supercomputers are computers that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.

Sub-menu

• A Submenu is a secondary menu available through another menu, especially one that branches off the first.

Subfolder

• A Subfolder is a Folder, directory, catalog, or drawer, in computing, is a virtual container within a digital file system, in which groups of computer files and other folders can be kept and organized.

Status bar

• A Status bar is an information area typically found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface.

Start button

• The Start Button provides a central launching point for application and tasks.

Standard toolbar

• A Standard toolbar is the bar of icons (save, print, help, etc.) on the screen below the menu bar in applications such as Microsoft Word.

Standard desktop

• A Standard desktop is the typical screensaver of any Microsoft desktop. 

Spreadsheet software

• A Spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.

Spreadsheet

• A Spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet. 

Source

• A Source is anything that provides information.

Sorting

• Sorting is any process of arranging items in some sequence and/or in different sets, and accordingly, it has two common, yet distinct meanings: # ordering: arranging items of the same kind, class, nature, etc.

Software development

• A Software development is the act of working to produce/create software.

Software

• A Software is a written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory.

Shortcut menu button

• Shortcut menu button this menu contains specialized commands and options for the object.   

Shortcut menu

• A Shortcut menu is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click or middle click mouse operation.

Shortcut keys

• Shortcut keys is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user.