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Tue 17 Feb 2015 – Wed 25 Feb 2015

Tuesday 17 February 2015

09:30	Web Authoring: Web2.0 (Collaborative Technologies) - Overview (Level 4) Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Phoenix Teaching Room This course will introduce so-called web2.0 technologies, which are loosely centred around the push towards social networking. It will show how you are probably already participating and what else you might be interested in trying out.
10:00	Web Skills for Researchers: Web of Knowledge Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Balfour Macintosh Room ISI Web of Knowledge contains over 13,000 journals with over 40 million cited references added annually. It enables the researcher to identify the prolific authors for a topic, identify the institutions that have published most in a specific field and gain insight into key publication trends.
14:15	PowerPoint 2007 for Presentations: Fast Track Introduction Finished 14:15 - 16:45 Phoenix Teaching Room This course will introduce the use of PowerPoint in the production of presentation for use with slides, foils and direct projection.

Wednesday 18 February 2015

09:30	Access 2007: Further Use (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is intended for those already using Microsoft Access 2007 to store and retrieve data who wish to explore queries, forms and reporting. Those who have attended the Access Intro course will find this follows on seamlessly from where that course ended.
	Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.
14:15	Macintosh: Getting to Grips with Mac OS X Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room This course offers a basic introduction to Mac OS X, the latest version of the Mac operating system. It also gives an overview of some of the more advanced functions offered by the operating system, and the core applications, which both an office or PWF user would find useful to use e.g. Microsoft Word.
	Program Design: How to Help Programs Debug Themselves Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Hopkinson Lecture Theatre This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is intended for serious programmers who need to develop large or complex codes, or to write applications that will be used and worked on by other people or over a long time (years). It will describe some of the design and coding techniques that can make debugging easier (sometimes even semi-automatic), and reduce the overall development and maintenance effort by spending a bit more time during design and coding. It is applicable to any conventional language, from Python to Fortran to Java to C++ and even assembler, and will describe the techniques in generic terms. It should be regarded as part of the practical end of software engineering - everything covered will be something that the speaker has found to be useful in practice.
	Matlab: Basics (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. Matlab is a software package for numerical computation with high quality graphics facilities. This course is for beginners and new users of the package and describes basic concepts and use of Matlab, but not any other optional 'Toolboxes' available from the developers of Matlab.

Thursday 19 February 2015

09:30	Access 2007: Further Use (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is intended for those already using Microsoft Access 2007 to store and retrieve data who wish to explore queries, forms and reporting. Those who have attended the Access Intro course will find this follows on seamlessly from where that course ended.
	Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.
14:15	Matlab: Basics (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. Matlab is a software package for numerical computation with high quality graphics facilities. This course is for beginners and new users of the package and describes basic concepts and use of Matlab, but not any other optional 'Toolboxes' available from the developers of Matlab.

Monday 23 February 2015

09:30	Excel 2007: Further Use (Self-paced) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This hands-on course is a follow up from the Excel 2007 Introduction course.
	Mathematica: Graphics ( Self paced) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. Mathematica is a software package for numerical computation, symbolic manipulation and the production of graphics from mathematical functions and data. This course examines Mathematica's graphical capabilities in more detail than the "Mathematica: Basics" course.
	Mathematica: Basics (Self-paced) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. Mathematica is a software package for numerical computation, symbolic manipulation and the production of graphics from mathematical functions and data. This course is for beginners and new users of the package and describes basic concepts and use of Mathematica.
14:15	Photoshop: Further Techniques Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room 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.
	Stata for Regression Analysis (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 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.
	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre 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.

Tuesday 24 February 2015

09:30	Stata for Regression Analysis (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 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.
14:15	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre 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.
14:30	Web Authoring: Web Graphics (Level 3) Finished 14:30 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 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.

Wednesday 25 February 2015

09:00	Negotiation Skills (1 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 12:30 Peterhouse: Lubbock Room Being able to negotiate well is essential for many staff at all levels within the University. Recognise your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator and learn how to identify and examine different negotiation techniques. Start to identify and practice those principled approaches that are most likely to prove successful when negotiating an important agreement or settlement.
09:30	Excel 2007: Advanced Part 1 Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course which is a follow up from the Excel Further Use course, covers some more advanced features of Excel 2007. The course will be taught using Excel 2007 on PCs (Windows XP) but Macintosh users of Excel 2008 should also find it useful.
13:30	Relational Database Design Finished 13:30 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room This course gives a simple introduction to organizing your data in a relational database. It aims to explain the arranging of your data. It does not deal with specific relational databases systems such as Access, Oracle or SQL Server, or the technical tools that you would or could use to set up your database. The course aims to provide you with enough information to sit down and design your database, regardless of the database product that you intend to use. Exercises will be done on paper, without using computers.
14:15	Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets Next Steps (Level 4) (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:30 Phoenix Teaching Room This two-part course will build on the simple style sheets produced in the introductory courses. The aim is to give you a full appreciation of how stylesheets work and how to work with them, and using them as an integral part of producing web pages and sites.
	Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Hopkinson Lecture Theatre This course describes how patterns in text strings can be matched using regular expressions. A number of programming and scripting languages (such as Python, Perl, and Java) and other applications (such as Apache, PHP, Exim, and some text editors) support the use of regular expression patterns. Although there are some differences between the different implementations, there is also a lot in common. The course has been modified and extended from the one previously given by Philip Hazel, the author of the PCRE ("Perl Compatible Regular Expressions") library, one of the standard and widely used regular expression libraries. The extensions are: Python and Java to the same level as Perl and PCRE; more warnings about problem areas, background usage and programming hints; and a short section on true (computer science) regular expressions and their uses when transferring data between programs.