The required textbook and software package is Diebold, Francis X., Elements of Forecasting, 4th ed., (with EViews Software 6.0) Thomson South-Western, 2007. ISBN 0324817606. The bundle, available from the bookstore, is quite expensive. While you are free to buy a used book online, you will also have to have a copy of the software. It can be purchased from its publisher separately for $39.95 plus $15 shipping and handling.

EViews web site

Eviews Basics

How to import a Diebold Dataset into EViews

Working with data series

Forecasting with EViews

Creating Specialized Graphs

Eview Program Code Examples:

(Student edition of eviews does not support program files, but you can use these examples as guides and type commands on the command line. To download, rightclick and save as a .txt file.)

Forecast figure with confidence intervals (NYSE volume example)
Forecast figure with confidence intervals (Hawaii visitor arrivals example--exponential)
ARMA model selection (For use with the Hawaii Visitor Arrivals workfile, see below)

Other Eviews Stuff:

Day of the week Excel file. (Save it to disk and then do a "file/import/Read Text-Lotus-Excel..." from within your current EViews workfile. There are 7 series that will be imported, six day-of-the-week dummy variables and a series that you can ignore, called "weekday").

Day-of-week dummies (Excel)
Day-of-week dummies for Business Week Data (Excel)