HIGHER INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

2020/2021 Academic Year

LAB 0: Review of Basic concepts

LAB 1: App development

HOD
NGOLAH KENNETH TIM
PhD. Cand(Software Engineering, UB)
MSc. (Computer Science & Engineering, AUST Abuja)
DIPES II (Informatique fondamentale/MATHS, UMa)
BSc. (Maths and CSc, UB)
CCNA, A+
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LAB 0 (SOFTWARE)

WINDOWS

PROJECT 0
- Cold boot your computer
- Check the specifications of your computer
- Practice how to use your keyboard
- Practice how to use a computer without a mouse
- Practice how to use a computer without a physical keyboard
- Create a folder on the desktop and name it “Your name”
- Using Paint, draw the flag of Cameroon and save it in your folder

WORD PROCESSOR

PROJECT 1
Use your word processor (MS Word) to type the following extract using the guidelines given below:
i. Single line spacing
ii. Advert Letter head: Times New Roman, 14 points
iii. Advert title: 18 points, ALGERIAN, Bold, Centre
iv. First paragraph: 16 points, Times New Roman, Italics, Drop cap for the first letter
v. Mathematical equations: Cambria Math, 12 points, Italics
vi. Table: 10 points, Times New Roman, Italics
vii. Last paragraph: 14 points, Times New Roman, Left and Right justify
viii. Insert a footer with the text “Computer Engineering is Good”

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MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

HIBMAT BUEA
A School For Professionals

SCIENCE AND ITS WONDERS

T he advent of computers has come to solve the difficulties encountered during the use of the
type writers. Some of the difficulties encountered were to type scientific formulae and
symbols like:
=∞
𝑖=1 𝑋𝑖,
2
𝐻2 𝑂, 𝐻2 𝐶5 𝑂𝐻 , (𝑋 + 5) ,
𝑥
2
𝑦
𝑝

1
5𝑥

C C O E
S R H R R
A I R E I
N S I N A
D T S T L
R H E T I C
A A L I A
L N E
N G O E M A R I

To fully understand this new technology, it is important for one to review the definitions of some of
the key concepts such as:
 Data: Raw facts and figures that are processed into information
 Information: Data that has been summarised or otherwise manipulated for use in decision
making
 Network: Communications system connecting two or more computers
 Download: The transmission of data from a remote computer to a local computer
 Upload: the transmission of data from a local computer to a remote computer
 Softcopy: Data that is shown on a display screen or is in audio or video form
 Hardcopy: this is the printed copy of documents
o Save your work and close
o Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document
o Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

PROJECT 2

The table below shows savings by members of a „Njangi‟ group for three months. Each
member has to save twice in a month. Create the following table using a suitable word
processor, and save it in a folder you have created on your desktop. Equally save all
subsequent tasks in this same folder.
Name Month Savings1 Savings2 Total Average
Savings savings/month
Johnson January 5450 3050
Jude February 7640 3000
March 3000 7000
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Paula Silas January 6060 7000
February 5260 5000
March 7990 8000
Tom Johns January 8050 9000
February 4000 4000
March 4000 6000
Sam Kuba January 1000 5000
February 5000 8000
March 3000 7000

Overall Total Savings

Task:

- Using the functions feature in your word processor, enter formulae in the first twelve cells of
the total savings column, which will return the sum for each monthly savings.
- Enter another formula into the 13th cell under the Total savings column that will return the
total savings for all the members of the „njangi‟
- Sort the first column for names according to their increasing alphabetical order
o Save your work and close
o Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document
o Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

MS EXCEL
PROJECT 3
1) Open an Excel page and save it on the desktop as NGOLAH in your folder on the
desktop
- Set the page setup as follows
i. Margin: Narrow
ii. Size : A4
iii. Orientation : Portrait
- Name the worksheets as
i. Sheet One: Practice 1
ii. Sheet Two: Practice 2
iii. Sheet Three: Practice 3
- Select the intersection of column A to I and row 1 to 20
i. Set the row height to 17 and column width to 13.5
ii. Set the font size to 14, font style to italics, font color to black
iii. Set the alignment to centre
iv. Set borders to the selected area
- Select row 1, bold it, centre the data from column A to I
- Select row 2, set the orientation to angle counterclockwise, fill it with courses you have
registered for the HND starting from cell B2
- From cell A3, type the names of your mates
- Insert footers on the document as “Excel Exercise”
- Save your work and close
- Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document

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- Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

PROJECT 4
2) Assume your sister is a class mistress in one secondary school and want to grade
students of her course. The table below contain data she provided to you.
A B C D E F G H
Sex Students Csc Phy Eng Fre Pe201/ Total/ Ave/20 Rank Comment
201/20 201/20 201/20 201/20 20 100
M Eto 15 19 17 12 13
M Drogba 18 16 19 11 11
M Messi 18 12 13 18
M Ronaldo 16 14 11 09 19
M Rooney 16 10 05 14
M Derrick 12 15 07 04 11
F Mary 9 08 05 09
M Peter 16 07 11 11 11
F Susan 13 16 13 12 13
M Fritz 12 03 14 15 14
F Frida 12 08 12 14
M Ngolah 18 12 03 13 12
M Theron 11 15 10 15 08
F Sylvia 18 14 09
M Thelson 16 13 03 18 04

Task:
- Calculate the total
- Calculate the average
- Get the rank of students
- For comments, if a student scores above 16, write Excellent
- if a student scores above 14, write Upper Credit
- if a student scores above 12, write Lower Credit
- if a student scores above 10, write Above Average
- if a student scores 10, write Average
- if a student scores less than 10, write Failed
- calculate the number of students
- sort by sex
o Insert footers on the document as “Excel Exercise”
o Save your work and close
o Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document
o Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

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PROJECT 5
Mr. NGOLAH owns a computer accessories store in Buea and wants to computerize his
sales. Use the table below with the instructions given to help him computerize his sales
ITEM QTY U.COST T.COST U.SALES T.SALES
Hard drives 100 5000 8500
Memories 150 2500 5000
Flash disks 110 3000 5500
Processors 250 3200 5000
Laptops 50 80000 120000
Webcams 105 15000 20000
Microphones 120 4000 6500
Distributors 200 1200 3500
keyboards 65 2000 3500
DVD ROMs 35 10000 15000
TOTALS
NO OF
ITEMS
LEAST

TASK:
1) Create a folder on the desktop called your name and save the spreadsheet as SALES
2) Calculate the T.COST column
3) Calculate the T.SALES column
4) Include a heading DISCOUNT after T.SALES. calculate this column. Assuming that
discount rate of 2.5% was allowed on each items‟ total sales price. Calculate the discount
amount for each item.
5) Include a column heading after DISCOUNT and name it VAT. Calculate VAT i.e 19.25%
of T.SALES
6) Include another heading after the VAT called NET SALES. Enter a formula to calculate
the net sales for each item
7) Calculate the row headings i.e TOTALS, NO OF ITEMS, LEAST
8) Include a heading after NET SALES and name it PROFIT. Calculate the profit for each
item
9) Present the ITEMS, U.COST and T.SALES column on a column chart. That should
appear on a new spread sheet.
 Save your work and close
 Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document
 Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

PROJECT 6
Consider the table below
Name Month Savings1 Savings2 Total Average
Savings savings/month
Johnson January 5450 3050
Jude February 7640 3000
March 3000 7000
Paula Silas January 6060 7000
February 5260 5000
March 7990 8000
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Tom Johns January 8050 9000
February 4000 4000
March 4000 6000
Sam Kuba January 1000 5000
February 5000 8000
March 3000 7000

Overall Total Savings

Tasks
1) Create a workbook called NJANGI SAVINGS using a suitable spreadsheet application,
and save it in the folder on your desktop. Input the information as it appears in the table
above in a worksheet and call it SAVINGS. The table‟s header row should appear in Row
3 and the Name column should appear in column A.
2) Insert 3 other columns; INTEREST (which calculates the interest returned of 5% for the
total monthly savings), RANK (which ranks the total savings for each month by each
individual, with the highest total savings occupying the first position while the lowest
total savings occupies the last), COMMENT (which produces the comment „delinquent‟
when the total savings is less than or equal to 8000, and regular otherwise). Use
appropriate functions or formulae to calculate the above INTEREST, RANK,
COMMENT
3) Create another worksheet in the same workbook and call it SAVING ANALYSIS. Copy
only the first five columns of your original table of sheet SAVINGS into this worksheet
while making sure that it occupies the same cell positions as the table in sheet SAVINGS.
Leave all the entries of columns SAVINGS1, SAVINGS2, or Total Savings empty
4) Enter formulae into the first cells (i.e cells C4, D4 and E4) of SAVINGS1, SAVINGS2
and Total Savings columns, that links these cells to their corresponding (non-empty) cells
of the table in sheet SAVINGS. Use the auto-fill feature of your application to copy the
formula into the rest of the other cells in these columns.
NB: These formulae should be such that the values in SAVINGS1 and SAVINGS2 of
sheet SAVINGS automatically appear in SAVINGS1 and SAVINGS2 of sheet SAVING
ANALYSIS without necessarily entering them
3) Enter a formula into cell E16 of sheet SAVINGS ANALYSIS, which returns the
Overall Total Savings from the values in the Total Savings column of sheet savings
4) Insert 2 columns and name them: GIFT (A gift 500.000frs was to be shared by the
above names.), SHARE ( the gift was shared amongst the 4 members in the ratio
4:3:2:1). Calculate the share of each member.
- Save your work and close
- Take a print screen of the work and paste in a blank word document
- Present your work to your teacher for evaluation

MS Power Point
PROJECT 7
TASK 1: Create a presentation of 30 slides with good animations, good transitions, pictures, charts,
such that the presentation should not depend on a mouse click, provide a good sound to accompany
the slide show
TASK 2: PRESENTATION OF A FINANCIAL REPORT
- Load Microsoft Power Point
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1. Insert a title slide and fill it with the data for slide 1 below

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (GBHS

MAROUA)
STAFF SAVINGS REPORT

1.1. Chose a design for your presentation (e.g Trek)

1.2. Chose a transition for your slide (e.g Wipe Right)
1.3. Save your presentation on the desktop as “FINANCIAL REPORT”

2. Insert a title and content slide and fill it with the data for slide 2 below
INTRODUCTION

The staff of the department of Computer Science in GBHS

Maroua always come together at the end of every month to
do their savings. At the end of each quarter of the year, a
savings report is presented to the members. Here is a savings
report for the first quarter of the year 2014

1.1. Chose a transition for your slide (e.g Wipe Left)

3. Insert a Two content slide and fill it with the data for slide 3 below
Name Month Savings(CFA)
January 5400 TOTAL SAVINGS FOR:
Johnson February 7600  Johnson = 16000
March 3000  Paula = 18985
January 6000  Tom = 16045
Paula February 5000  Sam = 9000
March 7985
January 8045
Tom February 4000
March 4000
January 1000

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Sam February 5000
March 3000

3.1. Chose a transition for your slide (e.g wheel clockwise, 8 spokes)
3.2. Chose animation for your slide (e.g Fly In : By Ist level paragraph)

4. Insert a Title and Content slide and fill it with the column chart of the table in
slide 3
4.1. Give the title of the slide as “CHART REPRESENTATION OF THE SAVINGS”
4.2. Chose a transition for your slide (e.g Wipe up)

5. Insert a Picture with Caption slide and fill it with a picture from the computer
(e.g pengiuns)
5.1. For the title you type “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE”
5.1.2. For animation, use “Fly In: Medium”
6. Insert the slide numbers
7. Insert the footers (FINANCIAL REPORT)
8. Save your work
9. Make a slide show from the beginning (F5)

MS Publisher
PROJECT 8

- Design a logo for HIBMAT Buea

- Design complimentary cards for the administrative staff of HIBMAT Buea
- Design a birthday card for a friend‟s birthday
- Design a booklet of 40 pages for HIBMAT graduation with the first and last pages having
pictures, the second and second to the last pages being blank.
- Design a newsletter with 3 columns such that the material is link to different pages

MS Access
PROJECT 9

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Instruction: Perform the following tasks using any suitable programme from this list (Word,
Excel, Access, Publisher). All your work should be found in your folder in Drive C. Cooperation or
communication between students is not allowed
Task 1: Create a database for a newly created Business center in town using the following
information.
Tables Fields
CLIENT ClientNo, ClientName, ClientTown
BOUGHT SalesNo, ArticleNo, ClientNo, Quantity, Date of Purchase, Paid
ARTICLE ArticleNo, ArticleName, UnitPrice
Note: The bolded and underlined fields are the primary keys
Table data
Tables Fields Values
ClientNo Auto Number
ClientName Ngolah,Ken,Tim,Theron,Thelson,Sylvia,Thelma,Alma,Rozy,Bren,Cypo,Tom
CLIENT ClientTown Molyko,Malingo,Mile 16,Bumaka,Bunduma,Molyko,Buea,Molyko,Mile
16,Soppo,Molyko,Soppo

SalesNo Auto Number

ArticleNo 1,3,2,2,4,6,8,10,8,9,5,5
ClientNo 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,12,11,6,8,8
BOUGHT Quantity 1,2,2,3,6,6,8,3,2,10,4,6
Date of 01/01/1997x3, 15/2/1999x3,23/4/2001x3,18/5/2003x3
Purchase
Paid Yes,Yes, No, No, No, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No, No

ARTICLE ArticleNo Auto Number

ArticleName Milk, tea,sugar,bread,lipton,egg,Tampico,tea,bread,egg,egg,milk
UnitPrice(CFA) 250,380,170,550,100,65,200,380,550,65,250
Task 2: perform the following;
1. Display the people who bought milk
2. Display people who bought milk, sugar or bread
3. Display people who bought milk, sugar and bread
4. Find out what Ngolah bought in the shop
5. Show articles bought for more than 300frs
6. Display the articles in descending order of cost
7. Display clients with numbers greater than 5 that bought bread
8. Display everybody that took part in the purchase
9. Display articles bought by Tim, Theron, Thelma which are greater than 200frs
10. Display all articles different from 100frs
11. Display all articles bought between 1/1/1997 and 18/5/2003
12. Create forms for the three tables
13. Create a Report to display everybody that took part in the purchase (insert logo, date and
time)
14. Explain the concept of a primary key

PROJECT 10
The table below shows a flat – file table used in recording transactions between a customer and a
whole sale trader. The table entries consist of the customers‟ identity card number, account
number,names, product name, quantity, unit price, Trader and Trader name.

CustomerID AccNo Name Surename Product Quantity UnitPrice Trader TradName

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10057 100781A John Paul Shed2 John
214068B Savon 4cartons 1000 Shed1 Paul
170691D Sugar 12cartons 6000 Shed5 Tim
10056 707012M Mercy Johnson Flour 7bags 18000 Shed7 Kenneth
Salt 3bags 2500 Shed2 John
10057 333222M Simon Peter Cement 20bags 5000 Shed5 Tim
371125P Zinc 5rolls 10000 Shed9 Theron
444154P Savon 4cartons 10000 Shed7 Kenneth
Given that a customer may have more than one account number through which payments for the
products can be made and that two customers can jointly make the same order, use the above table to
carry out the following work:
Task 1:
1. Write the above table in first normal form (1NF)
2. Write down a possible primary key for your table
3. Using a suitable database management system (DBMS) of your choice, create your table of
1NF in design view making use of your primary key. Name your database as Business
records and save your table as tbl Accounts
4. Print your table in datasheet view
5. In your booklet, write down the input mask that will limit the input of an account number to 6
digits (0-9)
6. What are some two problems or limitations that can be faced with tables existing in 1NF?
Task 2:
7. Now write down the above table in second normal form (2NF), including the primary key
used for each table
a. Create these tables in a database called Business Record2 while giving any names of
your choice to the tables you have created but only making sure that these table names
have meanings relative to their corresponding tables. Print the tables you have created
b. Create relationships between the tables you have created (without re-enforcing
referential integrity). Snap the two window displaying the relationships and paste it on
a word processing document. Save this document as Relations and print it.
c. Creat a form that displays all the columns (or field) names of all your tables, which
can be used to enter data into any of the tables. Snap your form and paste in a word
processor. Save your work as Forms and print it.
d. Using the table in1NF above, produce a report which carries the statistics of the table.
Save and print the report(using the name Report)
Task 3:
Using a spreadsheet of your choice, produce the following table on a worksheet and save it as
performance (This is to be imported into your database)
Name 1st Term Average 2nd Term Average 3rd Term Average
Theron 13 4 0
Thelson 17.5 10 18
Thelma 11 13 16.5
Kenneth 12 10.3 7.5
Sylvia 19 15 17
1. Use a feature of your spreadsheet to display only the students having a first term average
being strictly less than 17. Print the display and write in your booklet, the name of the
feature you have used
2. Produce a line chart that displays the statistics given in the original table of this task 3 and
call it performance analysis. Print this chart.
3. Write down the formula you would enter to calculate Theron‟s class average
4. Using your database called Business records of task 1, import table 2 about into this
database. Print this table.

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Task 6: Create a database for a newly created Business center in town using the following
information.
Tables Fields
CLIENT ClientNo, ClientName, ClientTown
BOUGHT SalesNo, ArticleNo, ClientNo, Quantity, Date of Purchase, Paid
ARTICLE ArticleNo, ArticleName, UnitPrice
Note: The bolded and underlined fields are the primary keys
Table data
Tables Fields Values
ClientNo Auto Number
ClientName Ngolah,Ken,Tim,Theron,Thelson,Sylvia,Thelma,Alma,Rozy,Bren,Cypo,Tom
CLIENT ClientTown Molyko,Malingo,Mile 16,Bumaka,Bunduma,Molyko,Buea,Molyko,Mile
16,Soppo,Molyko,Soppo

SalesNo Auto Number

ArticleNo 1,3,2,2,4,6,8,10,8,9,5,5
ClientNo 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,12,11,6,8,8
BOUGHT Quantity 1,2,2,3,6,6,8,3,2,10,4,6
Date of 01/01/1997x3, 15/2/1999x3,23/4/2001x3,18/5/2003x3
Purchase
Paid Yes,Yes, No, No, No, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No, No

ARTICLE ArticleNo Auto Number

ArticleName Milk, tea,sugar,bread,lipton,egg,Tampico,tea,bread,egg,egg,milk
UnitPrice(CFA) 250,380,170,550,100,65,200,380,550,65,250
Task 12: perform the following;
1. Display the people who bought milk
2. Display people who bought milk, sugar or bread
3. Display people who bought milk, sugar and bread
4. Find out what Ngolah bought in the shop
5. Show articles bought for more than 300frs
6. Display the articles in descending order of cost
7. Display clients with numbers greater than 5 that bought bread
8. Display everybody that took part in the purchase
9. Display articles bought by Tim, Theron, Thelma which are greater than 200frs
10. Display all articles different from 100frs
11. Display all articles bought between 1/1/1997 and 18/5/2003
12. Create forms for the three tables
13. Create a Report to display everybody that took part in the purchase (insert logo, date and
time)
14. Explain the concept of a primary key

Task 2: Design a database to be used for transcripts in HIBMAT.

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Exercise 1: 5 marks
Reproduce the transcript below so that the values for grade, grade point, weighted point, first
semester gpa, total, second semester gpa, overall credit earned, cummulative gpa, class of
degree should be generated from the formula inserted.

Exercise 2: 5 marks
Reproduce the results sheet below so that the values for total, gp, grade, total cvs validated,
total/100, semester gpa, rank should be generated from the formula inserted.

NGOLAH KENNETH TIM

PhD. Cand(Software Engineering, UB)
MSc. (Computer Science & Engineering, AUST Abuja)
DIPES II (Informatique fondamentale/MATHS, UMa)
BSc. (Maths and CSc, UB)
CCNA, A+

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