All-provider course timetable
Tuesday 13 November 2012
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A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation. |
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Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful web creation tool that allows non-technical people to produce professional websites. This course provides a practical introduction for those that wish to use Dreamweaver to create web-pages and manage websites. It focuses on building a small website. |
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| 14:15 |
Stata for Regression Analysis
Finished
This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into Stata, and know how to operate basic syntax having completed the Basics course or through self-study with the student version or manuals. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard Stata procedures. Guidance will also be provided on further addons that may be of interest. |
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LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents. |
Wednesday 14 November 2012
| 09:30 |
Stata for Regression Analysis
Finished
This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into Stata, and know how to operate basic syntax having completed the Basics course or through self-study with the student version or manuals. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard Stata procedures. Guidance will also be provided on further addons that may be of interest. |
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A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation. |
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| 14:15 |
Photoshop: Further Techniques
Finished
Following on from the "Photoshop: Basic Techniques" course, this course covers some of the more advanced feature of Adobe Photoshop, the popular image manipulation and editing tool for graphics and design professionals. The course will explore some of the more advanced features of Photoshop. Techniques will be explained and demonstrated, and participants will then be given the opportunity to practice these for themselves. |
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This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. No previous experience of shell scripting is required for this course; however some knowledge of the interactive use of the bash shell is a prerequisite (see Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists: Prerequisites for details). This course introduces shell scripting in bash for scientific computing tasks. Day one introduces very basic shell scripts in bash which process the command line in a simple fashion. Day two covers how to write more advanced shell scripts in bash. Day three covers how to make one's shell scripts more robust. At the end of each day one or more exercises are set. It is VERY IMPORTANT that attendees attempt these exercises before the next day of the course. Attendees should make sure that they have allowed themselves sufficient study time for these exercises between each day of the course. |
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LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents. |
Thursday 15 November 2012
| 09:00 |
A fools guide to reading instructions for students who struggle with this key skill. |
| 09:30 |
Advanced Ballroom Dancing
Finished
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Good stuff by DPJ
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A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation. |
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| 10:30 |
This follow-up practical gives those who have attended the LaTeX Introduction an opportunity to do exercises under supervision. |
| 13:30 |
Good stuff by DPJ
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| 14:15 |
InDesign is a desktop publishing package available for both Macs and PCs which is used to build up a publication from ready-prepared text, images and graphics in the same way as QuarkXpress and PageMaker. Participants use pre-written text and scanned-in pictures to assemble and produce a double-sided, two-column newsletter using InDesign. |
Friday 16 November 2012
| 09:00 |
A fools guide to reading instructions for students who struggle with this key skill. |
| 09:15 |
SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This session follows on from Part 1 and covers useful techniques and tricks. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use SPSS for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data. |
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Good stuff by DPJ
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The rendering time for web pages is dominated by the graphics on the page. This course teaches methods of preparing graphics so minimise information loss and maximise transfer and rendering efficiency. There is an opportuinity to try the methods using PhotoShop. |
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| 13:30 |
Good stuff by DPJ
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| 14:15 |
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. No previous experience of shell scripting is required for this course; however some knowledge of the interactive use of the bash shell is a prerequisite (see Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists: Prerequisites for details). This course introduces shell scripting in bash for scientific computing tasks. Day one introduces very basic shell scripts in bash which process the command line in a simple fashion. Day two covers how to write more advanced shell scripts in bash. Day three covers how to make one's shell scripts more robust. At the end of each day one or more exercises are set. It is VERY IMPORTANT that attendees attempt these exercises before the next day of the course. Attendees should make sure that they have allowed themselves sufficient study time for these exercises between each day of the course. |
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This course is a task-focused version of the "Mastering Advanced Features" course. It is designed to give a overview of the advanced features of Microsoft Word 2007 that are most relevant to producing dissertations, theses and other long documents. |
Saturday 17 November 2012
| 09:30 |
Table Tennis
Finished
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Sunday 18 November 2012
| 10:30 |
Word 2007 for Beginners (self-paced)
Finished
This self-paced practical course covers the most commonly used features of Microsoft Word 2007. It is not suitable for experienced users of other versions of Word wanting to find out about the new features in Word 2007. Those needing basic Windows training may also attend this course and do relevant exercises under supervision. |