本书是创新方法工作专项项目“科学思维、科学方法在高等学校教学创新中的应用与实践——KM教学法的研究与实践”及多年的教改项目（FKM教学法、基于CPS相融合的研究型教学）的主要研究成果之一。
本实践操作手册是教材《计算机基础与实践》（英文版）的配套实践操作部分，可作为上机指导手册，内容包括Microsoft Windows 7、Microsoft Word 2010、Microsoft Excel 2010、Microsoft PowerPoint 2010、Python Programming和Big Data and Machine Learning。
本书开篇通过KM图给出本实践操作所需的软件在软件系统中的所属范围，由理论知识的逻辑结构图引出实践内容，每章均有该章的内容逻辑结构图，相关内容附有知识点KM图，在知识习得上实现“薄-厚-薄”的回路，力图在内容、阐述等方面形成新的模式。
本书适合作为高等院校“大学计算机基础”课程的双语、全英文课堂和留学生课堂的上机实践操作手册，也适合作为学习计算机英语的入门操作参考书籍。

Chapter 1 Microsoft Windows 7
1.1 An Overview of Windows 7
1.1.1 The New Function of Windows 7
1.1.2 The Basic Operation of Windows 7
1.2 File Management of Windows 7
1.2.1 Explore
1.2.2 Search
1.2.3 Backup and Restore
1.3 Control Panel
1.3.1 Program Management
1.3.2 Custom Personalization
1.4 Task Manager
1.5 Experiment of File Management
1.5.1 Experiment purpose
1.5.2 Experiment contents
1.5.3 Experiment procedures
1.5.4 Self test practice
1.6 Experiment of System Setting
1.6.1 Experiment purpose
1.6.2 Experiment contents
1.6.3 Experiment procedures
1.6.4 Self test practice
Chapter 2 Microsoft Word 2010
2.1 An Overview of Microsoft Word 2010
2.1.1 Basic functions of Microsoft Word 2010
2.1.2 Working Interface of Microsoft Word 2010
2.2 Experiment 1: Document Settings
2.2.1 Experiment purpose
2.2.2 Experiment contents
2.2.3 Experiment procedures
2.2.4 Self test practice
2.3 Experiment 2: Pictures and Tables in Word
2.3.1 Experiment purpose
2.3.2 Experiment contents
2.3.3 Experiment procedures
2.3.4 Self test practice
2.4 Experiment 3: Word Project
2.4.1 Document theme
2.4.2 Document requirements
Chapter 3 Microsoft Excel 2010
3.1 An Overview of Microsoft Excel 2010
3.1.1 The elements of Excel table
3.1.2 Create a table
3.2 Experiment 1: Basic Excel
3.2.1 Experiment purpose
3.2.2 Experiment contents
3.2.3 Experiment procedures
3.2.4 Self test practice
3.3 Experiment 2: Advanced Excel
3.3.1 Experiment purpose
3.3.2 Experiment contents
3.3.3 Experiment procedures
3.3.4 Self test practice
3.4 Experiment 3: Excel Project
3.4.1 Project topic
3.4.2 Experiment requirements
Chapter 4 Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
4.1 An Overview of PowerPoint 2010
4.1.1 Basic functions of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
4.1.2 Working Interface of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
4.2 Experiment 1： Basic Operation
4.2.1 Experiment purpose
4.2.2 Experiment contents
4.2.3 Experiment procedures
4.2.4 Self test practice
4.3 Experiment 2： Advanced Operation
4.3.1 Experiment purpose
4.3.2 Experiment contents
4.3.3 Experiment procedures
4.3.4 Self test practice
4.4 Experiment 3: Comprehensive Project
Chapter 5 Python Programming
5.1 Building Python Environment
5.1.1 Install Python
5.1.2 Install PyCharm
5.2 Experiment 1: Basic Operation
5.2.1 Experiment purpose
5.2.2 Experiment contents
5.2.3 Self test practice
5.3 Experiment 2: Advanced Operation
5.3.1 Experiment purpose
5.3.2 Experiment contents
5.3.3 Self test practice
5.4 Experiment 3: Python Project
5.4.1 Experiment purpose
5.4.2 Experiment contents
5.4.3 Self test practice
Chapter 6 Big Data and Machine Learning
6.1 An Overview of Big Data and Machine Learning
6.1.1 Introduction of Big Data and Machine Learning
6.1.2 Development platform installation
6.1.3 Development environment test
6.1.4 Installation of other related libraries
6.2 Experiment 1: Handwritten digital image recognition
6.2.1 Experiment purpose
6.2.2 Experiment contents
6.2.3 Experiment procedures
6.2.4 Self test practice
6.3 Experiment 2: Analysis of COVID-19 data
6.3.1 Experiment purpose
6.3.2 Experiment contents
6.3.3 Experiment procedures
6.3.4 Self test practice