UCS Text Lent 2015
(Mon 5 Jan 2015 - Thu 21 May 2015)
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Tuesday 10 February 2015
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Excel 2007: Further Use (Self-paced)
Finished
This hands-on course is a follow up from the Excel 2007 Introduction course. |
| 14:15 |
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course does NOT discuss sophisticated programming techniques designed to improve the speed, efficiency or memory use of a program, nor does it deal with the algorithmic aspects of programming. It is NOT suitable for those people who already know how to program and are seeking to learn more sophisticated programming techniques. This course provides an introduction to organising your programming task(s) and using your knowledge of those tasks to produce an appropriate structure for your computer program. The aim of the course is to equip attendees with the concepts, mindset and outlook appropriate to designing programs whose structure reflects that of the task(s) the program is supposed to carry out, regardless of the programming language in which the final program is written. Exercises will be done on paper, without the use of a computer and without reference to the syntax or keywords of specific programming languages. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series of courses, the examples, exercises and techniques used in this course will be more appropriate for scientific programming than for other programming tasks. |
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This hands-on course will introduce cascading style sheets (CSS) and tables and show how they can (and should) be used effectively when creating web pages. |
Wednesday 11 February 2015
| 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. |
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This self-paced hands-on course gives an introduction to spreadsheets, databases and charting using Excel 2007. There is emphasis on short cuts and other efficient ways of working. |
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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. |
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This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course provides an introduction to object oriented programming (OOP), aimed at those who have no prior experience of object oriented programming. The concepts of object oriented programming are demonstrated in Python, and Python's implementation of these concepts is discussed. By the end of the course, attendees should have a basic familiarity with these concepts and be able to assess wether the object-oriented paradigm is appropriate for their programming tasks. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, most of the examples in the presentation are of greatest relevance to scientific programming. Please note that there are no practical exercises during this course. |
Thursday 12 February 2015
| 09:30 |
SPSS: Beyond the Basics
Finished
This session follows on from SPSS: Basic Parts 1 and 2 and continues to introduce useful techniques for data analysis with SPSS. Working with sensitive data types will be covered and a basic introduction to SPSS command language. |
| 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. |
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This self-paced hands-on course gives an introduction to spreadsheets, databases and charting using Excel 2007. There is emphasis on short cuts and other efficient ways of working. |
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| 14:15 |
This course is mainly aimed at students writing their thesis. It is a task-focused version of the Mastering Advanced Features which is aimed at staff creating reports. Please do not book yourself on both courses. 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. |
Sunday 15 February 2015
| 14:15 |
Python: Further Topics
Finished
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course will introduce more advanced aspects of the Python language than the "Python for Absolute Beginners" course or "Python for Programmers" courses. The course will cover topics such as file I/O in more detail than either of those two courses. Whilst the course will not cover the use of Python to produce graphical output, some mention will be made of how Python can be used to interface with tools such as gnuplot to produce graphical output of scientific data. This course does not explicitly cover the object oriented aspects of the Python language. |
Monday 16 February 2015
| 10:00 |
Adobe Photoshop is the favourite image manipulation and editing tool of the professional graphics industry. It enables scanned-in photographs, pictures and graphics files to be edited and offers a dazzling array of drawing, special effects and filtering tools. Knowing where to start with such a comprehensive and feature-filled package can be daunting. This presentation aims to equip new users with the basics, using live demonstrations throughout. |
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An introduction to the bibliography package EndNote and its interface with Microsoft Word. EndNote is a program that stores bibliographic references, and notes about those references, in an EndNote Library. EndNote then interfaces with MS Word to help you create a bibliography and bibliographic citations while you type a document. The style (contents and layout) of the citations and bibliography can then be formatted in an Output Style of your choice; this can easily be changed without retyping. |
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| 14:15 |
Python: Further Topics
Finished
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course will introduce more advanced aspects of the Python language than the "Python for Absolute Beginners" course or "Python for Programmers" courses. The course will cover topics such as file I/O in more detail than either of those two courses. Whilst the course will not cover the use of Python to produce graphical output, some mention will be made of how Python can be used to interface with tools such as gnuplot to produce graphical output of scientific data. This course does not explicitly cover the object oriented aspects of the Python language. |
Tuesday 17 February 2015
| 09:30 |
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 |
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 |
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
Finished
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Matlab: Basics
Finished
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
Finished
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. |
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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. |
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| 14:15 |
Matlab: Basics
Finished
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. |