4/03/2011

MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Book Description
Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office 2010! This all-in-one guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for the four core Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams.

With the MOS 2010 Study Guide, you get full, objective-by-objective coverage for:

  • Exam 77-881: Microsoft Word 2010
  • Exam 77-882: Microsoft Excel 2010
  • Exam 77-883: Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
  • Exam 77-884: Microsoft Outlook 2010

Use the book's easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review the essential skills measured by the MOS exams. And you can apply what you've learned hands-on—using the downloadable files for all the book's practice tasks.

About the Author
Joan Lambert is the author of more than a dozen books on Windows® and Office, including several popular STEP BY STEP titles from Microsoft Press®.

Joyce Cox has 20+ years of experience developing training materials on technical subjects for non-technical audiences, specializing in Office and Windows® technologies.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0735648751
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735648753
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Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project

Book Description
Learn best practices and proven methods from project management pros — and apply these newfound skills with Microsoft® Project 2010. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, shares the real-world experiences of project managers in several industries, and shows you how to put the best practices and hard-won lessons of experts to work using powerful Project 2010 tools.
  • Work effectively with project stakeholders, management, and team members
  • Define scope, objectives, and deliverables
  • Estimate work, choose resources, build project schedules, and track progress
  • Accurately estimate project costs and work with a budget
  • Identify and manage project changes and risks
  • Balance project variables without sacrificing quality
  • Document project history and lessons-learned to help improve future projects

About the Author
Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated with math in its practical and more esoteric forms. She writes excellent and entertaining books about personal finance, investing, accounting, and project management. Her NAIC Stock Selection Handbook won major awards from the Society of Technical Communication and APEX Awards for Publication Excellence (but the raves she receives from beginning investors mean much more to her).

Bonnie is also the author of O'Reilly's Online Investing Hacks, Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, and Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual. She writes a monthly column called WebWatch for Better Investing magazine and is a regular contributor to http://www.interest.com. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0735649804
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735649804
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4/01/2011

The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming

Book Description
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® software and its NXT-G programming language are powerful tools that make it easy to write custom programs for your robots. NXT-G is a great first programming language, but that doesn't mean it's easy to understand—at least not right away.

In The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming, author and experienced software engineer Terry Griffin explains how to program MINDSTORMS robots with NXT-G. You'll learn how to work with the core parts of the NXT-G language, such as blocks, data wires, files, and variables, and see how these pieces can work together. You'll also learn good programming practices, bad habits to avoid, and useful debugging strategies.

As you follow along with the book's extensive instructions and explanations, you'll learn exactly how NXT-G works and how to:

  • Write custom programs that make your robots appear to think and respond to your commands
  • Design, create, and debug large programs
  • Write programs that use data wires and the NXT buttons to turn a robot into a contraption, like a sound generator or a sketch pad
  • Use My Blocks in your programs, and share them with others
  • Store data on the NXT, manage its memory, and transfer files between the NXT and your computer

The book's programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you'll build in Chapter 3.

Whether you're a young robotics enthusiast, an adult working with children to learn robotics, a parent, a FIRST LEGO League coach, or a teacher using NXT in the classroom, this is the complete guide to NXT-G that you've been looking for.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (August, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781593272180
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593272180
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