Winplot+and+excel+resources

Winplot

 * [|The home page for the Winplot software] (includes a link for downloading the software)
 * [|A page of links to Winplot tutorials and videos] (**__Warning__**: Some of the links no longer work.)
 * [|The instructional videos assigned for viewing before February 10]. You will need to have viewed **videos 1-4 and video 7** and be able to replicate what is being taught in them.
 * [|A handy web page tutorial for Winplot]

Excel
//**Warning**: The tutorials below are both for Excel 2007. The way things work and look on other versions of Excel could differ somewhat from what you see here.//
 * [|Basic Excel tutorial] from the University of South Dakota.
 * [|Another entry-level Excel tutorial.]

Wolfram|Alpha

 * [|Wolfram|Alpha itself]
 * A video Prof. Talbert made, [|"Wolfram|Alpha for Calculus Students"]

Alternatives to Winplot

 * [|xFunctions] (free; web-based). A Java applet supporting several useful function graphing tasks. Does not contain all the features of Winplot, such as intersection point location.
 * [|Grapher] (Mac only; comes bundled with Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5). Apple's function plotting software. Very full-featured and integrated well with other OS X applications.

Alternatives to Excel

 * [|Google Documents and Spreadsheets] (free; web-based). A combination word processor and spreadsheet, all online with no installation needed. You will need to create a Google account if you don't already have one; if you do have one, or a GMail account, just use your GMail address and password. The spreadsheet is very nice and can interoperate with Excel.
 * [|OpenOffice] (free; Windows, Mac, and Linux). A free, complete office suite including a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software.
 * [|Numbers] ($79; Mac OS X only). Apple's spreadsheet program, part of the larger [|iWork] suite which includes Pages (word processing/desktop publishing) and Keynote (the best presentation software on the market!).