 So welcome now to module four and we start module four off a little different. Here's where things are gonna actually kind of Change up a second. We're getting into something known as Microsoft access now Microsoft access That's that word that you've heard about and you've never really danced with it. You're you know, you're interested The one thing I have to give you as a sort of just heads up Microsoft access sucks The reason why is because what we are introducing is something called Databases now a database basically runs our world everything that we do everything that we work on Being a student here at Cape Fear Community College your bank account everything is stored in a database and It's a little bit more of coming. You know that man behind the curtain, you know Say the exact same thing that we saw with Microsoft Excel We started to see, you know, oh, hey, you know, there's mathematical formulas We have to do these in a specific way the same thing starts to happen with databases. We're starting to kind of Manipulate our data. So we have to be a little bit more careful with how we kind of present it that way the computer kind of understands what we're saying when we ask a question and so We do have to kind of be a little more mindful of what we're doing on the database Why I mentioned this is that we have to actually kind of plan ahead and As such, I want you guys to plan ahead for your assignments on average what I hear students saying as the Sam assignments for Microsoft access take roughly an hour to an hour and a half and that's Even the people who already, you know, they're their computer people and They're probably not even watching this YouTube video. It's gonna take them time to do these assignments. So Go ahead and plan ahead. Don't wait until Sunday to start on these because you're not gonna finish them Which means you're gonna get zeros on those assignments now the other little note about that because it's so hard because it's You know taxing the one thing I want to point out is that a lot of the assignment a lot of the work that you're gonna do It's more along the lines of showing you kind of the back end showing you, you know Kind of what the IT people are doing on their side of things now what that means is Microsoft access will not be on the module for exam Let me repeat that Microsoft access will not Be on the module for exam what that means is We get to PowerPoint we get to integration. Yes, those will be on this module for exam Access is not going to be on the module for exam. So That might sound a little weird might little sound a little wonky for you But you still have to remember you still have homework assignments each one of those is still 1.25 percent Of your grade so if you don't do any of them that's six percent of your final grade that you're just Throwing away because it's not gonna be on the exam. So yes, you do still have to do these things Yes, you still have to go through the song and dance of You know hating it just for a little bit only for two weeks because as soon as we finish up Microsoft Excel or access right after we finish access we move into Microsoft PowerPoint and then we get into integration and then Well, you might find out that we're riding around that time for the finals. So You got enough time Knock it out. I think you guys will see it's actually kind of fun. It's it's really interesting to work on databases So best of luck