COMPUTER STUDIES ICT JSS 3 FIRST TERM LESSON NOTES PLAN
FIRST TERM E-LEARNING NOTES
JSS 3 (BASIC 9)
SUBJECT: COMPUTER SCIENCE
SCHEME OF WORK
WEEK TOPICS
Second period: (c) Uses of Search Engines
First & Second Period: Practical uses of search engine
make all the search engines diagram in this week)
First & Second Period:(a) Concept of digital divide
(b) Database Terminologies (i) Fields (b) Records (iii) File (iv) Database (v) Key etc
c) Forms of Database: (i) Flat file (ii) Hierarchical (iii) Relational etc
DATABASE PRACTICAL (MS ACCESS)
Starting and opening and existing database
Sub-Topic 1: PRACTICAL
Starting MS Access
Unlike a word processing or spreadsheet document, which you can name after you have started or completed it, a database has to be named before any work is started on it.
- Click on the Start
- Select All Programs.
- Select Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Office Access.
- Check for New Blank Database and then click on ‘Blank database’.
- Type a name for your database into the ‘File Name’, box.
- Click Create and you are in Access environment
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When working in Access, you make use of tables. Tables are the most important object in the database.
To create a table, you can use any of the following methods:
- Datasheet view
- Design view
- Table wizard
Creating a table in Datasheet view
- Open the database.
- Click Create
- Click Table Design Tab
- Enter Field Names and Data Type g. Surname, Middle name, Last Name etc
- Save table,
- (A prompt for primary key pops out, click No for now)
- Click View
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- Select Datasheet view.