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Wed 24 Oct 2012 – Sat 27 Oct 2012

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Wednesday 24 October 2012

09:00
Soccer Skills (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 CPPD Room 2


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

09:15
Soccer Skills 4 (1 of 2) Finished 09:15 - 10:15 Meeting Room 9


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

Soccer Skills 3 (1 of 2) Finished 09:15 - 10:15 Meeting Room 11


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

09:30
Advanced Ballroom Dancing 2 Finished 09:30 - 17:00 Peterhouse: Lubbock Room


Would you like to be able to dance like they do on 'Strictly'? If so then this is the course for you!

R: Regression Analysis in R new (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Balfour Macintosh Room

This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into R already, and know how to operate basic syntax. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard R procedures. Half a dozen libraries will be introduced that enables importing of data and running of linear, binary, ordinal and nominal outcome regression models in R.

Stata (Statistical Package): Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

Stata is a powerful general purpose statistical package.

This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of Stata will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below).

The first session looks at an overview of the Stata system and getting data into Stata format and the second looks at reporting, graphing and analyses. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use Stata for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data.

14:15
EndNote for Bibliographies: Introduction (self-paced) Finished 14:15 - 16:15 Titan Teaching Room 2

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.

Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (2 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others.

As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming.

Mathematica: Basics (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1

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.

Thursday 25 October 2012

09:00
Soccer Skills 4 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 9


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

Soccer Skills 3 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 11


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

09:30
Advanced Ballroom Dancing 4 Finished 09:30 - 17:00 Meeting Room2


Would you like to be able to dance like they do on 'Strictly'? If so then this is the course for you!

Email: Managing Your Messages and Saving Time Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Phoenix Teaching Room

This course is aimed at people who are using Hermes (or other cam.ac.uk mail servers) and who want to manage and take control of their email because it is taking up too much of their time. It will cover valuable tips and techniques for managing email effectively. The practical part will be self-paced: participants can select which exercises to do using either Hermes Webmail and/or Outlook. There will also be ample opportunity to ask questions.

Web Authoring: Introduction to HTML (Level 1) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1

This is a practical-based course for people new to writing Web pages. Only the basics of HTML (hypertext markup language) will be covered, but there are other courses for those wishing to extend their knowledge. By the end of the course participants will have created three personal linked web pages.

Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road)

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14:15
Illustrator: The Basics Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room

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

Program Design: How Computers Handle Numbers Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Hopkinson Lecture Theatre

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This could be called "Computer Arithmetic Uncovered". It will describe how computers store and process integers and floating point numbers, and also the exceptions that might arise and what they mean. The intent is to explain how modern computers handle numbers, and how to get reliable answers for a reasonable amount of effort.

Friday 26 October 2012

09:15
Soccer Skills 2 (1 of 2) Finished 09:15 - 10:15 Meeting Room 11


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

09:30
Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road)

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Excel 2007: Further Use Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

This hands-on course is a follow up from the Excel 2007 Introduction course.

Web Authoring: Beyond the Basics (Level 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1

This follows on from the Introduction to HTML and is a practical-based course.

14:15
Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (3 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others.

As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming.

Word 2007: Moving from Word 2003 to Word 2007 Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 2

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

Mathematica: Basics (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1

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.

Saturday 27 October 2012

09:00
Soccer Skills 2 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 11


Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

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