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

Ing. Miroslav Menšík, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science

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.

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)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281598

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.