The Computer Centre is pleased to announce a series of courses given between February and April, 2000 to assist staff and students in using the Centre's facilities. The courses will cover the following areas:
 

Internet Browsing and Webpage Authoring Chinese Information Handling Spreadsheet Unix System and Application Software PC Network and Services

Word Processing  Web Course Tools Parallel Programming Adobe Photoshop Statistical Analysis

Most courses are open to all staff and students free of charge.  A fee is charged for courses provided by a course vendor. Some courses require pre-requisites.  Click on the course number to see the description of each course.

Users can apply on-line for these courses through the "CC Course Registration" icon in HKUWIN or click the "Staff Registration" or "Student Registration" links below.

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Staff Registration   or   Student Registration

Courses on Parallel Programming
 
 

C0813599	SP2 Parallel Programming with workshop	Feb 03, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-101
C0913599	SP2 Parallel Programming with workshop	Feb 22, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-101
C0313799	High Performance               FORTRAN	Mar 8, 9, 10, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-101
C1013599	SP2 Parallel Programming with workshop	Mar 24, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-101
C1113599	SP2 Parallel Programming with workshop	Apr 28, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-101

Staff Registration   or   Student Registration
 

Courses on Unix System and Applications
 

C0611899	Introduction to UNIX	Feb 25, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0711899	Introduction to UNIX	Mar 21, 2000  2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201

Staff Registration   or   Student Registration
 

Courses on HKU Network
 

C0615999	Connecting to the HKU Network (PPP, ACEnet, Hall Network)	Feb 29, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0715999	Connecting to the HKU Network (PPP, ACEnet, Hall Network)	Apr 11, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201

Staff Registration   or   Student Registration
 

Courses on Web Browsing and Webpage Editing
 
 

C0614099	Getting started with Internet Services and WWW	Feb 14, 2000  2:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0615199	Basic HTML Editing	Feb 15, 2000  2:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Old Library Building,  LBO-135
C0515899	Advanced HTML Editing : Imagemap, CGI and Frames	Feb 17, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0615899	Advanced HTML Editing : Imagemap, CGI and Frames	Mar 17, 2000  2:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0714099	Getting started with Internet Services and WWW	Mar 23, 2000  2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0715199	Basic HTML Editing	Apr 18, 2000  2:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
C0814099	Getting started with Internet Services and WWW	Apr 27, 2000  2:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201

Staff Registration   or   Student Registration

Courses on Microsoft Office and Other Topics
 
 

W0481299	MS PowerPoint 97  (Staff Only)	Feb 16, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0281099	Webpage Creation Using  Dreamweaver 2  (Staff Only)	Feb 21, 22, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0280599	Adobe Photoshop 4.0 (Staff Only)	Mar 1, 2, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0480999	MS Access 97  (Staff Only)	Mar 7, 8, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Old Library Building,  LBO-135
W0581299	MS PowerPoint 97  (Staff Only)	Mar 13, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0380899	Chinese Inputing Method (Staff Only)	Mar 29, 30, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Mar 31, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0380699	MS Word 97  (Staff Only)	Apr 5, 6, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Apr 7, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201
W0681299	MS PowerPoint 97  (Staff Only)	Apr 20, 2000  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Run Run Shaw Building,  RR-201

Staff Registration   or   Student Registration
 

 Course Descriptions:

Courses on Internet Browsing and Webpage Authoring

Getting Started with Internet Services and WWW

This is a 3-hour introductory course. Course contents include
    Introduction to Internet
    Using The Netscape Communicator 4 Browser
    Reading Chinese on WWW Browser
    Tour on the HKU Intranet
    Tour on the Global Internet

Basic HTML Editing

This 3-hour course workshop on HTML editing using the Netscape Communicator 4 Editor.  In the workshop, students would be doing the following exercises:
    Exercise 1 - Create a document, try colors, fonts, bullets lists etc.
    Exercise 2 - Create targets and hyperlinks
    Exercise 3 - Create a table
    Exercise 4 - Using image files in your document
    Exercise 5 - Uploading your document to the server

Advanced HTML Editing

This is a 3-hour course on advanced techniques for HTML editing using the FrontPage Editor.  Contents include:
    Creating frames in a webpage
    Using image maps in a webpage.
    Downloading and imbedding "cgi programs" in a webpage
Pre-requisite: Basic HTML Editing.
 

WebCT (Web Course Tool) Training Courses

Introduction to WebCT

This 2-hour course will discuss the basic functionalities provided by WebCT from a student's point of view to give participants some feelings on what WebCT can do for their course. e.g. browsing course materials, attempting on-line quizzes, using bulletin boards.

WebCT Course Designer's Basic Workshop

This 4-hour course will cover steps for course designers (staff members who actually prepare courses on WebCT) to post lecture materials on WebCT, and to perform customization on course homepages.
Pre-requisites: Introduction to WebCT, Basic HTML Editing.

WebCT Course Designer's Advanced Workshop

This 2-hour course will cover more advanced features for course designers, e.g. preparing on-line quizzes, checking statistical data, managing student records.
Pre-requisites: WebCT Course Designer's Basic Workshop

Courses on Parallel Programming

SP2 Parallel Programming with Workshop

This is a 3-hour seminar and workshop for people interested in parallel programming using the IBM SP2 Supercomputer. It covers the methodology of writing parallel programs using the message passing interface (MPI). Students should have programming experience in C or Fortran but experience in parallel programming is not needed. Sample programs will be given to users in the hands-on workshop.

High Performance FORTRAN

This 3-hour seminar on High Performance FORTRAN provides an easy way to write data parallel programs in MIMD computers such as the IBM SP2. The High Performance FORTRAN is an extension of the FORTRAN 90 in several areas, including:

• Data distribution features
• Data parallel execution features
• Extended intrinsic functions and standard library
• EXTRINSIC procedures

This 9-hour course provides and introduction to the structure and syntax of the FORTRAN 90 language for FORTRAN 77
programmers. After taking this course, users will be able to write FORTRAN 90 programs using arrays and write reusable and
readable codes using the data encapsulation feature of FORTRAN 90.

Courses on Unix System and Application Software

Introduction to UNIX

This is a 3-hour introductory course for users with little or no Unix experience. The course will cover the Unix computing environment, the Unix file system, the editor, email, disk quota and mail quota allocations and commonly used Unix commands.

Seminar on MAPLE V

This is a 2-hour introduction course on the use of MAPLE V for mathematical computations.  The course covers:
    Maple Objects,
    Syntax of Maple V commands
    Some Common Operations
    Numerical Operations
    Graphics
    I/O
    Programming in Maple V

Seminar on MATLAB

MATLAB is an integrated computing environment for numeric computation and visualization. This 2-hour seminar will give an
introduction on using MATLAB in numerical analysis, matrix computation and graphics etc.

Seminar on Mathematica

Mathematica is a general computer software system and language intended for mathematical and other applications. In this 2-hour
seminar, examples of using Mathematica in numerical calculations, graphics, algebra and calculus, solving equations etc, will be
shown.

Seminar on SAS

The SAS package is an integrated system for data analysis. In this 2-hour seminar, users will learn how to create a SAS
data set, to retrieve data from the data set and to perform some commonly used statistical procedures. Users are expected to have
some statistics background.

Connecting to the HKU Network (PPP, ACEnet and Hall Network)

This is a 3-hour seminar on the HKU network with an introduction to the network topology, network services, and the software for accessing the HKU network.  The HKU network can be accessed from the following venues:
    PPP - for dialing in from home
    Hallnet - for student residing in residence halls
    ACEnet - for accessing everywhere from any network point
 

Courses on Microsoft Office and Other Topics

MS Word 97 for Windows 95 ($360)

This is a 2 1/2 day course especially designed for users who want to learn how to navigate through and work with documents; manipulate text; change formatting and page layout; and preview and print a document.

Course Outline :

Word 97 processing concepts

Using dialog boxes and icons

Documents editing

Files save/retrieve and Management

Files conversion and import/export filters

Selecting fonts and using special text and symbols

Auto formatting and style options

Using thesaurus and hyphenation, spelling and grammar check

Creating multiple columns and table

Positioning text and graphics with frames

Assembling documents with mail merge

Working with long documents

Printing master documents, envelopes and labels

Data linking and embedding

PowerPoint 97 ($200)

This is a 6-hour course on making a professional presentation slide show using PowerPoint97.  Contents include:
    Creating and editing a slide show presentation
    Entering data in a presentation
    Adding clip art and charts to a slide
    Creating speaker notes
    Adding transition effects
    Saving and printing a presentation

ACCESS 97 for Windows 95 ($360)

Access is a powerful database software allowing users to create
database and database applications without any programming work.
Access 97 is part of the Microsoft Office 97 system which operates in
the Window 95 or Window 98 environment and is Y2K compliant.
This is a 2 day course.

Contents of this course include:

1. Introduction to Access 97
    - Basic concepts of Access 97
    - Starting the application
    - To quit Access 97
    - To open a database in Access 97
    - How to read from and write to standard text files

2. Creating tables
    - Data type
    - Creating tables
    - Saving table
    - Data entry table

3. Finding data
    - Sorting data
    - Filtering by selecting data
    - Filtering by form

4. Query
    - Creating a query
    - Creating multi-table query and calculated field

5. Creating a form
    - Creating a form with form wizard
    - changing design of form
    - preview designed form
    - formatting toolbar

6. Creating reports
    - creating reports
    - creating mailing labels

The course outline of this 2 1/2-day workshop include :

Adobe Photoshop 4.0  ($360)

This is a 2-day course on using the Adobe Photoshop, a software for photo retouching, image editing and color painting.
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 has many new and enhanced features in auto-updating of formats, multiple layers control, digital watermarks for copyright, effects filters, and other enhancements for control of quality etc.
Course outline :
    Photoshop Basic
    Selections, Mask and Channel Operation
    Enhancing Photo
    Montage and Collage
    Using Filters
    Painting
    Combining Photoshop and PostScript
    Special Effects
    3D/4D Adding Depth and Motion

Adobe Illustrator 8  ($500)

This is a 2-day course on using the Adobe Illustrator 8, a popular illustration software that can create graphically rich artwork for print or the Web.
Course Outline :
    1. Basic concepts on computer graphic design
    2. Using various drawing tools
    3. Grid and guides
    4. Text editing, path type and area type and use of different fonts
    5. Rotating and resizing objects
    6. Mask effect, transforming objects from 2D to 3D
    7. Inserting graphic images

Web Creation Using Dreamweaver 2  ($500)

This 2 days course is designed for users who want to learn how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver 2, a powerful & professional visual editor for creating and managing web pages. With Dreamweaver, it's easy to create cross-platform, cross-browser pages.  Course outline :
    1. Dreamweaver Work Space
    2. Site Planning & Site Management
    3. Understanding Hyper Link
    4. Using Images & Animations
    5. Using Cascding Sytle Sheet
    6. Creating Forms & Frames
    7. Creating Interactive Homepage
Pre-requisite: Basic HTML Editing, Advanced HTML Editing
 

Chinese Inputting Method & Chinese Word 97* ($360)

This is a 2 1/2-day course especially designed for users who are familiar with the English microcomputer working environment but with little experience on Chinese microcomputer operation. The course will cover :
 

1. Since workshops on Microsoft Office97 and other programs for Windows are organised in conjunction with a course vendor, the Whiz Company, there is a nominal charge on the course.

For courses requiring a fee, please send payment to the Computer Centre together with your registration form, or as soon as you have registered on the web, otherwise your registration is considered invalid and will be replaced by another applicant.  Payment can be made in cheque (payable to the University of Hong Kong), or through departmental requisition (for applicants supported by departments).   Successful applicants will be notified by e-mail or telephone at least one week before the commencement of the workshop. Once accepted, the fee is not refundable. However, substitution of participant is possible by written notification to the Centre.

2. The workshops on Chinese Word 97  will be conducted in Cantonese.

3. Enrolment for some courses may be for staff only while others are for students only.  Where it is not specified, the courses are open to all staff and students of the University.

* The maximum number of participants for workshops held in Room 135, Old Library Building is 25; Room 201, Run Run Shaw Building is 22; and Room 101, Run Run Shaw Building is 20.