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- Welcome!
- To the Science Fair Graphs & Numbers Tutorial
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ To end the demo, press the Esc key. │
- └───────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Press Enter to move to next screen.
-
- .endbox
- .locate 22,1
- .center(*This program was produced using TexaSoft's PC-CAI program.*)
- .locate 23,1
- .center(*(c)Copyright TexaSoft, 1984-1994.*)
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- Special Note
-
- This program requires that you have a EGA or VGA compatible monitor.
- If you are not using a compatible monitor, press the ESC key at this
- time. Otherwise, press ENTER to begin the tutorial.
-
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- .locate 2,1
- .center(*Let's see how to CREATE A BAR CHART.*)
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- For your science project, you created three electromagnets made of
- three different kinds of wire -- Small, Medium and Large gauge.
- You tested each magnet to see how many nails it would pick up.
- You want a BAR CHART to show your results.
-
- YOUR DATA IS...
- ───────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
- MAGNET NAILS │ 1─2─3 steps to CREATE a BAR CHART: │
- ────────── ──────── │ ───────────────────────────────────── │
- SMALL 31 │ 1. Create a NEW database │
- MEDIUM 38 │ 2. Enter the data │
- LARGE 51 │ 3. Select the graph to display │
- └───────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Let's see how it's done...
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- Creating a Graph is as
- simple as 1-2-3!
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- .play (*MFO1C4*)
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- 1. Create a NEW database
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- 2. Enter the data into the database
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- 3. Select the graph to display
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- This is the MAIN MENU screen.
-
- The File "pull-down" menu is extended.
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- .wait 2
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- HINT: To choose a menu, use the right-
- or left-arrow keys, or point to a menu
- name with your mouse pointer and click.
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- STEP 1: Choose New Database.
- (Or, choose Open a Database,
- if you already have your
- data in a database.)
-
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- When you choose New Database, you are asked
- to enter the name for your new database.
- Enter a name, like "MAGNETS", of up to 8
- characters. (No blanks in the name.)
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-
- Choose the database type from a
- list of pre-defined databases, or
- you can create a custom database.
-
- To create a BAR CHART, choose the
- SIMPLE BAR CHART Option.
-
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- STEP 2: ENTER DATA - This is where you
- enter your results of your experiment --
- the data entry screen. Enter the data
- for the first magnet as record 1.
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- Your first Label is SMALL (small wire)
- Your first Value is 31 (number of nails)
-
- Type SMALL (press Enter), type 31 (Press
- Enter), then...
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- (.CHR024)
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- │
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- │
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- │
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- └ Label = Small = The type of magnet
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- (.CHR024)
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- │
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- └ Value = 31 = The number of nails picked up
-
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- Enter records 2 and 3 -- representing
- the three sizes of magnets and number of
- nails picked up. Press F7 (Exit) to end
- entry....
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- STEP 3: CHOOSE WHAT GRAPH TO USE...
- The Graph menu is displayed. For this
- analysis, choose to display a Bar Graph.
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- This is the resulting graph...
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- (.CHR024)
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- │
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- │
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- │
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- └────────────────────
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- NOTE: Using the menu at the top of
- the screen, you can change colors,
- patterns, titles, etc. for each graph.
-
- These graphs are in EGA mode. If you use
- VGA mode, you will have more color choices.
-
- Following are some more graph examples...
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- .cen(*R E M E M B E R*)
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- .cen(*Creating a Graph is as*)
- .cen(*simple as 1-2-3!*)
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- 1. Create a
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- new database.
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- 2. Enter the
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- data.
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- 3. Select
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- the graph type
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- you want to create.
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- @LABEL:ENDING
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-
- Science Fair Graphs & Numbers allows you to create these kinds of
- graphs and calculations:
-
- o Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Line Chart, Area Chart
- o Histogram, Box and Whiskers, Normal Curve
- o Cumulative Distribution, Stem and Leaf Plot
- o X-Y Scatterplot
- o Time Series Plot
- o Calculate statistics
-
- To make data entry easy, SF G&N creates and reads data in
- the standard dBASE format.
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-
- Do you want to print out a one page summary of how to perform
- the bar chart example?
-
- (Make sure your printer is on-line and has paper.)
-
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- @begin
- .locate 20,28
- @read (*Please answer Y or N:*)
- @right (*Y*) keyword
- @END QUESTION
- @if wrong then :skipprint
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- Printing in progress...
-
- After the tutorial summary finishes printing --
-
- Go over the tutorial step by step and create the barchart
- described in this tutorial.
-
- Create this sample bar chart BEFORE entering your own data.
- This will help you understand better how to use the program
- for creating charts for your own data.
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- Run through the tutorial again?
-
- This is the end of the tutorial, you have two choices:
-
- 1. Answer Y (Yes) to go through the tutorial again
-
- 2. Answer N (No) to end the tutorial
-
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- @read (*Please answer Y or N:*)
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