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Thu 11 Mar 2010 – Fri 23 Apr 2010

Thursday 11 March 2010

09:30	Web Site Management: Creating and Managing a Web Site (Level 3) (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 This two-part course will describe good-practice aspects of designing, building and running a web site, and providing information on a web server. The requirements for providing accessible web pages, utilising the site-wide search engine on your web pages and liaising with a web design company are also covered. In addition, Helen Sargan runs an "access/site design clinic" with information providers on a one-to-one basis: please contact her directly to make an appointment.
14:15	Parallel Programming: Options and Design Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Hopkinson Lecture Theatre This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This is a detailed overview of using parallelism for achieving more computation in the same amount of elapsed time, covering both "shared memory" and "distributed memory" designs. It will concentrate on principles rather than details, to help attendees make the right decision and proceed in the right direction. It is aimed at users with significant programming experience who need more computation power than can be delivered by a single thread of execution on a single CPU core, including those who already program in parallel. The course is also designed for system administrators who need to support parallel codes, by describing the range of practical options, and their strengths, weaknesses, configuration issues and other important issues.
	MySQL: Implementing a Relational Database Design (1 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database.

Friday 12 March 2010

09:30	Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists (1 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) 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.
	Web Site Management: Creating and Managing a Web Site (Level 3) (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 This two-part course will describe good-practice aspects of designing, building and running a web site, and providing information on a web server. The requirements for providing accessible web pages, utilising the site-wide search engine on your web pages and liaising with a web design company are also covered. In addition, Helen Sargan runs an "access/site design clinic" with information providers on a one-to-one basis: please contact her directly to make an appointment.
	MySQL: Implementing a Relational Database Design (2 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database.
14:15	Python: Checkpointing Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course introduces the concept of checkpointing - the saving of a program's state while the program is running, such that the program can be restarted from that saved state - and describes how to implement application-level checkpointing for certain types of scientific programming tasks in Python. Attendees will benefit most from this course if they have a clear idea of the types of task which they wish to checkpoint prior to attending.
	MySQL: Implementing a Relational Database Design (3 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database.

Monday 15 March 2010

09:30

Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists (2 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road)

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.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

14:15

Mathematica: Symbolic Linear Algebra

CANCELLED 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course will cover using Mathematica for symbolic calculations (i.e. ones operating on formulae and not just numbers), concentrating on linear algebra. It will show how to use this to get first and higher order approximations to some linear algebra problems. It will indicate how it can be used for other such work, but not attempt to teach the details. The emphasis will be more on teaching what can be done than on teaching rules for how to do specific tasks.

Attendees should note that this is one of the most advanced courses on scientific computation given in the University, by any department, and is not suitable for inexperienced programmers.

Wednesday 17 March 2010

09:30

Unix: Building, Installing and Running Software (1 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

It is common for a student or researcher to find a piece of software or to have one thrust upon them by a supervisor which they must then build, install and use. It is a myth that any of this requires system privilege. This course demonstrates the building, installation and use of typical software ranging from trivially easy examples (the "configure, make, install" scheme) through to the evils of badly written Makefiles. Common errors and what they mean will be covered and by the end of the course the student should be able to manage their own software without needing to pester their system administrator.

C: Introduction for Those New to Programming (1 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site

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.

Thursday 18 March 2010

09:30	Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists (3 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) 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.
	Unix: Building, Installing and Running Software (2 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. It is common for a student or researcher to find a piece of software or to have one thrust upon them by a supervisor which they must then build, install and use. It is a myth that any of this requires system privilege. This course demonstrates the building, installation and use of typical software ranging from trivially easy examples (the "configure, make, install" scheme) through to the evils of badly written Makefiles. Common errors and what they mean will be covered and by the end of the course the student should be able to manage their own software without needing to pester their system administrator.
	C: Introduction for Those New to Programming (2 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site 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.