UCS IT Skills Training 2012-2013

This course will cover the admin and user interface for the Falcon Content Management Service.

Please note: The course is regularly oversubscribed, if this should be the case participants will be paired up and informed on the day.

This course will cover the admin and user interface for the Falcon Content Management Service.

Please note: The course is regularly oversubscribed, if this should be the case participants will be paired up and informed on the day.

Falcon Further Topics is a series of practical sessions aimed at system administrators to give further information about features and configuration options for the Falcon Content Management Service. Each course centres on one area of managing a Falcon site, come to those that are relevant to you.

This 3-day course which has been developed by the Computing Service Windows Support Group is aimed at IT Support staff within the University (i.e. Departmental and College Computer Officers and TechLinks) with an existing skill set in NT4/2000/2003/2008 server.

This course covers configuring and managing Windows 2008 server and Active Directory in the University Environment. The practical tasks will cover setting up an Active Directory domain and DNS with one or more servers. Each course member will initially work with 2 servers one acting as a Domain Controller and the other as a client in the domain.

If the course becomes oversubscribed precedence will be given to those who haven't previously attended a course and only one booking per institution will be accepted.

This 3-day course which has been developed by the Computing Service Windows Support Group is aimed at IT Support staff within the University (i.e. Departmental and College Computer Officers and TechLinks) with an existing skill set in NT4/2000/2003/2008 server.

This course covers configuring and managing Windows 2008 server and Active Directory in the University Environment. The practical tasks will cover setting up an Active Directory domain and DNS with one or more servers. Each course member will initially work with 2 servers one acting as a Domain Controller and the other as a client in the domain.

If the course becomes oversubscribed precedence will be given to those who haven't previously attended a course and only one booking per institution will be accepted.

This 3-day course which has been developed by the Computing Service Windows Support Group is aimed at IT Support staff within the University (i.e. Departmental and College Computer Officers and TechLinks) with an existing skill set in NT4/2000/2003/2008 server.

This course covers configuring and managing Windows 2008 server and Active Directory in the University Environment. The practical tasks will cover setting up an Active Directory domain and DNS with one or more servers. Each course member will initially work with 2 servers one acting as a Domain Controller and the other as a client in the domain.

If the course becomes oversubscribed precedence will be given to those who haven't previously attended a course and only one booking per institution will be accepted.

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.

This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database. Please be prepared for a fast paced course, but the materials provided can be used for consolidation after the course.

This beginners course equips you with the skills to implement a relational database design entity relationship diagram (ERD) into a MySQL database. Please be prepared for a fast paced course, but the materials provided can be used for consolidation after the course.

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course is aimed at those new to programming, or who have never been formally taught the principles and basic concepts of programming. It provides an introduction to the basic concepts common to most high level languages (including Python, Java, Fortran, C, C++, Visual Basic). The aim of the course is to equip attendees with the background knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle many on-line and printed programming tutorials. It may also help attendees in deciding which programming language is suitable for their programming task.

Knowledge of the concepts presented in this course is a pre-requisite for many of the other courses in the Scientific Computing series of courses (although not for the "Python for Absolute Beginners" course).

Illustrator is a professional graphical illustration package available on Mac and PC platform.

Microsoft Excel is the chosen spreadsheet package as it is a popular choice, both on Macintosh and PC.

This course examines the differences between Word 2003 and Word 2007/2010 with a view to using the new version as your default word-processor.

CPPD offer a 1 day intensive course Presentation Skills: An Introduction which may be more suitable for University staff.

This course is open to all members (staff and students) of the University.

It teaches the skills necessary to deliver more successful presentations. It is designed to offer you the opportunity to pick up tips and tricks for better planning, to think about creating or sourcing a range of appropriate visual aids, and how to improve your delivery technique. Participants will not be asked to present.

There will be the opportunity to ask any technical questions at the end of the course. If you wish to bring your laptop along we will be able to demonstrate some helpful techniques. You may also be interested in learning more about PowerPoint, please see Related courses below.

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.

This course is full but please do register your interest. If you do not have a place you can attend the lectures but it is unlikely that there will be a computer for you in the practical session. However, you will be able to download the notes and work in your own time.

This is an introduction to programming in modern C++, based on the book Programming: Principles and Practice using C++. It teaches how to write modern C++ as the designer intended it to be used, and that is the key to effective use of the C++ language including several aspects of programming and C++ that are neglected in many courses, like practical program design and some numerical programming. There is some extra, locally written, material on those topics. The aim is to teach you how to write large, practical programs.

• At the end, you will have a good understanding of how to write comprehensible, debuggable, maintainable and portable C++ programs.
• You will also be able to understand and modify most well-written C++ applications, though not necessarily every aspect of them.

Prof. Stroustrup estimates that newcomers to programming will have to put in about 210 hours' of work to learn how to program in C++ properly. That is an accurate estimate; this is not an easy course and should not be undertaken lightly. Unfortunately, the effort is due to the nature of the C++ language, and not the way the course is presented. We are attempting to give this course in rather less time by targetting people who have some of the basic skills. This why we say that complete newcomers to programming should learn a little Python first, and why this course is spread over most of a year.

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.