Course Details
Information Technology
Academic Year 2024/25
BUA005 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year
Basic procedures for large data sets processing with using of automated functions, macros and scripting tools in MS Excel. Application of these tools to solve simple problems from the general topics of civil engineering. Course is the extension of the basic course Informatics.
Credits
6 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Basic knowledge of MS Excel, English pre-intermediate.
Aims
To get general orientation in information technologies and possibilities of their use at firm’s management. To learn basic tools of system analysis. To acquire skills and ability to model reality during formation of information system.
The ability of automatic data processing, applying makeup and scripting engineering calculations in MS Excel.
The ability of automatic data processing, applying makeup and scripting engineering calculations in MS Excel.
Basic Literature
WRÓBLEWSKI, Piotr. Algoritmy: datové struktury a programovací techniky. Přeložil Marek MICHALEK, přeložil Bogdan KISZKA. Brno: Computer Press, 2004. ISBN 80-251-0343-9. (cs)
ŠŤASTNÝ, Zdeněk. Matematické a statistické výpočty v Microsoft Excelu: určeno pro Microsoft Excel 95, 97 i 2000. Praha: Computer Press, 1999. Kancelář. ISBN 80-7226-141-X. (cs)
ŠŤASTNÝ, Zdeněk. Matematické a statistické výpočty v Microsoft Excelu: určeno pro Microsoft Excel 95, 97 i 2000. Praha: Computer Press, 1999. Kancelář. ISBN 80-7226-141-X. (cs)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. The environment for developing VBA applications – more than the editor.
- 2. Basic data types. How to work with them. Variable vs. Excel cell.
- 3. How affect the processing of orders. Solution conditions and repeated execution of orders.
- 4. Since scalar variables to fields. Indices, vectors, matrices.
- 5. What is a macro? Generator of macros in MS Office.
- 6. Build custom formulas or custom functions.
- 7. Visual design of the user interface.
- 8. Proposal forms and event handling.
- 9. Why were created classes and objects. Definition of simple classes and objects in VBA.
- 10. How to work with MS Office documents.
- 11. What is the object model.
- 12. Example solving optimization and mechanical problems.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. We use a macro to simplify the work in a spreadsheet
- 2. Variable vs. constant, assign values to memory.
- 3. Methods vs. attributes. We learn first automatic steps.
- 4. Retrieving values from a table and writes the results table.
- 5. Checking our running macros using conditions.
- 6. Unlocking our computer through the cycle.
- 7. Cycles continued.
- 8. Debugging of our macros.
- 9. Scripting the numerical series and its suma.
- 10. Scripting text based data processing and analysis.
- 11. Scripting numerical solutions of equations.
- 12. Scripting statistical and optimization tasks. Scripting solution of mechanical tasks.