60 Courses in Belfast

COMPLETE VB.NET TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on introduction to programming in Visual BASIC .Net. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Build Visual BASIC applications. * Build simple components * Debug Visual BASIC programs. * Examine existing code and determine its function. COMPLETE VB.NET TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to program in Visual BASIC. Anyone wishing to build Windows based applications. * Prerequisites: None although experience in another high level language would be useful. * Duration 5 days COMPLETE VB.NET TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Writing your first program Visual Studio, forms designer, running VB programs, the UI, properties, writing the code. * Toolbox Controls Basic use, input controls, ActiveX controls. * Menus and Dialog Boxes Menus, Dialog Box controls, event procedures. * Visual Basic .NET variables and operators Variables, I/O, data types, constants, operators, Math Methods, precedence. * Decision Structures and Loops and Timers Event-Driven programming, If…Then, Select Case, For…Next Loops, Timer Control. * Debugging Visual Basic .NET Programs Break Mode, watch & command windows. * Structured Error Handling Try...Catch, Finally, Err Object, retry periods. * Modules and Procedures Standard modules, public variables, procedures. * Arrays and Collections to Manage Data Fixed-Size & dynamic Arrays, ReDim Preserve, object collections, Controls Collection. * Text Files and String Processing Text Box object, Text String methods, sorting. * Automating Office Applications Application objects, automation in VB, the Object Browser, the Process Component. * Deploying Visual Basic .NET Applications Planning a deployment, ways to deploy an application, deployment projects, options. * Managing Windows Forms Forms, positioning, manipulation, adding controls, organizing controls, Startup Object. * Adding Graphics and Animation Effects System.Drawing namespace, coordinates, SystemPaint Event, animation, transparency. * Inheriting Forms and Creating Base Classes Inheriting forms, inheritance picker, base classes and inheritance, classes in projects. * Working with Printers PrintDocument class, Text Box object, Print Preview and Page Setup Dialog Boxes. * Database programming with ADO.NET Databases, ADO.NET, Data Adapters, Datasets, Bound & Navigation Controls. Displaying database records, formatting DataGrid cells, updating the database. * Displaying HTML Documents Using IE IE Object, Internet Controls, IE Events. * Web Forms for Interactive Web Applications ASP.NET, Web Forms vs. Windows Forms, HTML controls, web applications, event procedures for web forms controls.

PROGRAMMING IN HTML5 WITH CSS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides an introduction to HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It is an entry point into both the Web application and Windows Store apps training paths. The course focuses on using HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript to implement programming logic, define and use variables, perform looping and branching, develop user interfaces, capture and validate user input, store data, and create well-structured application. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Create and style HTML5 pages. * Use JavaScript. * Style HTML5 pages by using CSS3. * Use common HTML5 APLs in interactive Web applications. * Create HTML5 Web pages that can adapt to different devices and form factors. * Enhance the user experience by adding animations to the HTML5 page. PROGRAMMING IN HTML5 WITH CSS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Website developers. * Prerequisites: HTML5 development fundamentals. * Duration 5 days PROGRAMMING IN HTML5 WITH CSS COURSE CONTENTS * Overview of HTML and CSS Overview of HTML, Overview of CSS, Creating a Web Application by Using Visual Studio 2012. Hands on Exploring the Contoso Conference Application. * Creating and Styling HTML5 Pages Creating an HTML5 Page, Styling an HTML5 Page. Hands on Creating and Styling HTML5 Pages. * Introduction to JavaScript Overview of JavaScript Syntax, Programming the HTML DOM with JavaScript, Introduction to jQuery. Hands on Displaying Data and Handling Events by Using JavaScript. * Creating Forms to Collect and Validate User Input Overview of Forms and Input Types, Validating User Input by Using HTML5 Attributes, Validating User Input by Using JavaScript. Hands on Creating a Form and Validating User Input. * Communicating with a Remote Data Source Sending and Receiving Data by Using XMLHTTPRequest, Sending and Receiving Data by Using jQuery AJAX operations. Hands on Communicating with a Remote Data Source. * Styling HTML5 by Using CSS3 Styling Text, Styling Block Elements, CSS3 Selectors, Enhancing Graphical Effects by Using CSS3. Hands on Styling Text and Block Elements using CSS3. * Creating Objects and Methods by Using JavaScript Writing Well-Structured JavaScript, Creating Custom Objects, Extending Objects. Hands on Refining Code for Maintainability and Extensibility. * Creating Interactive Pages using HTML5 APIs Interacting with Files, Incorporating Multimedia, Reacting to Browser Location and Context, Debugging and Profiling a Web Application. Hands on Creating Interactive Pages by Using HTML5 APIs. * Adding Offline Support to Web Applications Reading and Writing Data Locally, Adding Offline Support by Using the Application Cache. Hands on Adding Offline Support to a Web Application. * Implementing an Adaptive User Interface Supporting Multiple Form Factors, Creating an Adaptive User Interface. Hands on Implementing an Adaptive User Interface. * Creating Advanced Graphics Creating Interactive Graphics by Using Scalable Vector Graphics, Programmatically Drawing Graphics by Using a Canvas. Hands on Creating Advanced Graphics. * Animating the User Interface Applying CSS Transitions, Transforming Elements, Applying CSS Key-frame Animations. Hands on Animating User Interface Elements. * Web Sockets for Real-Time Communications Introduction to Web Sockets, Sending and Receiving Data by Using Web Sockets. Hands on Implementing Real-Time Communications by Using Web Sockets. * Creating a Web Worker Process Introduction to Web Workers, Performing Asynchronous Processing by Using a Web Worker. Hands on Creating a Web Worker Process.

JAVA TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A comprehensive introduction of the Java language and environment. It is important to note that the course will assume that the delegates are already familiar with the C language as this enables more advanced features of the Java language to be covered in the course. The course will also give an overview of areas related to programming in Java. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the Java architecture. * Write Java applets and applications. * Debug Java programs. * Examine existing code and determine its function. * Use multimedia extensions, the awt, multithreading, exceptions within Java JAVA TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to program in Java. * Prerequisites: Complete C programming * Duration 5 days JAVA TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Review of UNIX fundamentals * What is Java? What Java is, history of Java, reasons for success. The Java Virtual Machine, Bytecodes, getting up and running with Java, Java resources. Simple Java applications. * C features in Java Java data structures, Java flow control, differences from C, arrays, strings and packages. * OO features in Java Java classes and objects, inheritance, overloading, packages. Differences from C++. * Java applets Applications vs. applets, HTML, the applet tag, applet methods, life cycle, testing and debugging. * Multimedia applets Images, sounds, fonts, colours and animation. * Java products The JDK in detail, other development environments. Javabeans and JDBC overviews. * Abstract Window Toolkit JFC and Swing versus AWT. Event handling (JDK 1.1), GUIs, panels, buttons, lists, scrollbars, text areas, frames… * Exception handling and multithreading Handling exceptions. Starting, pausing, stopping threads, producers, consumers, monitoring. * More standard classes Java file I/O, Streams, The system class. The networking model, java.net classes. * Security and Java Types of attack, the security manager, craplets, securing the network. * Integrating legacy code with Java

ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A tour of the more advanced features of Java following on from the Introduction to Java course. JDBC and JavaBeans are covered in separate courses. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use Java to implement OOA/D. * Use within Java programs - Internationalisation - Object serialisation - Reflection - RMI - Swing - JAR files * Write Servlets and Java Server Pages ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to program in Java. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Java programming * Duration 5 days ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What you should already know * OO features in Java Static initialisers, object destruction, finalisation, constructor chaining, shadowing, Abstract classes and interfaces, inner classes, nested classes, member classes, local classes, anonymous classes. * Internationalisation Locales, Unicode, local customs, localising messages. * Object Serialisation Simple and custom serialisation, class versioning. * Reflection Obtaining class and member information. * RMI Restrictions, RMI architecture, Stubs, skeletons, rmic, the registry server, The RMI API. * Swing An overview, examples, comparison vs. AWT, data transfer cut & paste. * Servlets Servlet API, Java Web server, The servlet life cycle, chaining servlets, Hybrid servlets. * JAR files and signed applet JAR files and signed applet

COBOL TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on training course providing an introduction to COBOL. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Write COBOL programs * Debug COBOL programs * Examine existing code and determine its function. COBOL TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers working with COBOL. * Prerequisites: None although experience in another high level language would be useful. A 10 day version of this course would be more applicable for those new to programming. * Duration 5 days COBOL TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction to COBOL Compilation, linkage editor. Compile errors, compiler options. Divisions, syntax and format, COBOL character set, program structure. * COBOL statement structure COBOL words, format of statements. * Divisions Identification entries, Environment entries, Data division: FD, record descriptions, hierarchy and level numbers, description-string entry. * File and Working-Storage Sections Literals, figurative constants, redefines clause, data representation, Usage clause, synchronization, sign clause. * Procedure Division File status codes; Open, Read, Write, Close, Stop, Goback; Accept, display; Move, Justified, data name qualification, reference modification. * Perform statement Out-of-line, With test ... Until, ... Times, in-line statement; Go to statement. * Program design Design techniques, design considerations, procedure names, program structure. * Printing Printed output, Write, advancing option, editing characters; Initialize. * Condition testing Conditional statements: IF, class, sign and relation conditions, condition-name conditionals, Set, compound conditions, logical operators. Evaluate, Continue. * Arithmetic Rounded option, On Size Error option, Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Compute. * Non-sequential files File access modes, Select. Indexed and relative files. Open, Close, creating / reading sequential access files, Write, Read, Invalid key clause, reading, writing / updating Random access files, Rewrite, Delete, Start. * Declarative routines Clauses. * Subroutines Call, Using clause - calling program/called program, Linkage Section, returning control. * Table handling Subscripted tables: One/two/three dimensional tables, Perform, variable length tables. Indexed tables: Set, using an index; Search. Copy code: Copy, Suppress, Replacing. * Data Manipulation Inspect, String, Unstring. COBOL/370 LE/370 and Intrinsic Functions.

PERL TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on introduction to programming in Perl. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Write Perl programs. * Use Perl modules. * Debug Perl programs. * Examine existing code and determine its function. PERL TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to learn Perl. * Prerequisites: None although experience in another high level language would be useful. * Duration 5 days PERL TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction to Perl What is Perl? When to use Perl, downloading Perl, installing Perl, documentation, perldoc, running Perl, the Perl environment. Perl under UNIX, Perl under Windows. "Hello world". * Variables Scalars, data types, $_, strings and numbers, assignment, constants, strict, scope, STDIN. * Operators Number operators, string operators, precedence and associativity, converting numbers and strings, shortcut operators. * Flow control Blocks, if, else, elseif, unless, foreach, while, for do, until. * Regular expressions What are regular expressions? Pattern matching, Perl as a filter, file editing. * Strings Comparing strings, concatenating, substrings, chomp, chop, formatting, string manipulation. * Subroutines Comparing strings, concatenating, substrings, chomp, chop, formatting, string manipulation. * Arrays and hashes Working with arrays, element access, push(), pop(), shift(), unshift(), <STDIN> as an array, associative arrays, hashes of arrays, hash references, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes. * Files Simple file handling, open, close, <FILEHANDLE>, <>, file tests, directory access, directory handles, database access, packing and packing binary data. * I/O STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR, Command line arguments,@ARGV. * Perl debugging The built in debugger, running the debugger, debugger commands, graphical debuggers. Script syntax errors, single stepping, breakpoints, watches. * Packages and modules CPAN, Finding modules, installing modules, using modules, scope. * Report formatting Formats, defining a format, invoking a format, field holders. * Process management System interaction, system(), exec(), signals. Security issues.

ADVANCED UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A follow on hands on course from the Introduction to shell programming course covering the powerful sed and awk tools along with the extra Korn shell programming features. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use regular expressions within grep, ed and many other utilities. * Use awk and sed. * Integrate sed and awk into shell scripts. * Recognise the role of shell scripts within the UNIX system. * Write shell scripts using new Korn shell features including: * The select construct * Arrays * Arithmetic evaluation ADVANCED UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers developing applications under UNIX. Administrators who need time saving utilities. Technical personnel who wish to make the most out of the Korn Shell. * Prerequisites: UNIX shell scripting * Duration 3 days ADVANCED UNIX SHELL SCRIPTING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Regular Expressions What are REs? How can they be used? How to write REs * More REs e REs Tagging, matching words, repetitions. * The sed editor Basic usage: Saving output, options. sed script files, sed commands, Specifying lines to edit, Hold space and pattern space, advanced commands * Awk Basic usage, nawk script files, Patterns, Records and fields, Actions if, while, do, for... System variables NF, NR, RS... Arrays Functions length, printf, cos, user defined... Using nawk in shell scripts * Korn shell scripts Review of Bourne shell scripts functions... Variables typeset, manipulating strings Arrays Arithmetic evaluation the let command, (( )), typeset -i The select construct Syntax, workings, REPLY, PS3 Miscellaneous Enhanced I/O, ${10}

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NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is not a soft skills course covering the concepts of DevOps but instead concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps. Particular technologies focussed on are ansible, git and Python enabling delegates to leave the course ready to starting automating their network. Hands on sessions follow all major sections. More detailed courses on individual aspects of this course are available. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network automation tools. * Automate tasks with ansible. * Use git for version control. * Use Python to manage network devices. * Use Python libraries for network devices. NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Administrators automating tasks. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 5 days NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE CONTENTS * What is DevOps Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. * Initial configuration Configuring SSH, ZTP, POAP. Hands on Initial lab configuration. * Getting started with ansible The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. The architecture, Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles. Hands on Installing ansible, running ad hoc commands. * Ansible playbooks ansible-playbook, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules. Playbook variables. Register module, debug module. Hands on Running playbooks. * Ansible Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, hosts, groups, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Inventory variables, external variables. Limiting hosts. Hands on Static inventories, variables in inventory files. * Ansible modules for networking Built in modules, custom modules, return values. Core modules for network operations. Cisco and/or Juniper modules. ansible_connection. Ansible 2.6 CLI. Hands on Using modules. * Ansible templating and roles aConfiguration management, full configurations, partial configurations. The template module, the assemble module, connection: local, Jinja2 templates, variables, if, for, roles. Hands on Generating multiple configurations from a template. * Network programming and modules Why use Python? Why use ansible? alternatives, ansible tower, Linux network devices. * Programming with Python Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip instal. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * More Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip install. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * Git Distributed version control, repositories, Git and GitHub, Alternatives to GitHub, Installing git, git workflows, creating repositories, adding and editing files, branching and merging, merge conflicts. Hands on working with Git. * Python and networking APIs, Sockets, Telnetlib, pysnmp, ncclient, ciscoconfparse. * Paramiko SSH and Netmiko Integrating Python and network devices using SSH. Netmiko, Netmiko methods. Hands on Netmiko. * NAPALM What is NAPALM, NAPALM operations, getters, Replace, merge, compare, commit, discard. Hands on Configuration with NAPALM. Integrating ansible and NAPALM. * Python and REST REST APIs, enabling the REST API. Accessing the REST API with a browser, cURL, Python and REST, the request library. Hands on Using a REST API with network devices.

NETWORK AUTOMATION COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is not a soft skills course covering the concepts of DevOps but instead concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps. Particular technologies focussed on are ansible, git and Python enabling delegates to leave the course ready to starting automating their network. Hands on sessions follow all major sections. More detailed courses on individual aspects of this course are available. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network automation tools. * Automate tasks with ansible. * Use git for version control. * Use Python to manage network devices. * Use Python libraries for network devices. NETWORK AUTOMATION COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Network engineers. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers. * Duration 5 days NETWORK AUTOMATION COURSE CONTENTS * What is DevOps Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. * Initial configuration Configuring SSH, ZTP, POAP. Hands on Initial lab configuration. * Getting started with ansible The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. The architecture, Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles. Hands on Installing ansible, running ad hoc commands. * Ansible playbooks ansible-playbook, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules. Playbook variables. Register module, debug module. Hands on Running playbooks. * Ansible Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, hosts, groups, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Inventory variables, external variables. Limiting hosts. Hands on Static inventories, variables in inventory files. * Ansible modules for networking Built in modules, custom modules, return values. Core modules for network operations. Cisco and/ or Juniper modules. ansible_connection. Ansible 2.6 CLI. Hands on Using modules. * Ansible templating and roles Configuration management, full configurations, partial configurations. The template module, the assemble module, connection: local, Jinja2 templates, variables, if, for, roles. Hands on Generating multiple configurations from a template. * Network programming and modules Why use Python? Why use ansible? alternatives, ansible tower, Linux network devices. * Programming with Python Scripting versus application development, Python interactive mode, Python scripts, Python 2.7 vs Python 3. A simple Python script. Variables, loops, control statements, operators. PEP style guide. Python IDEs. Hands on Simple Python programs. * More Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip install, Hands on Python programming with pyping. * Git Distributed version control, repositories, Git and GitHub, Alternatives to GitHub, Installing git, git workflows, creating repositories, adding and editing files, branching and merging, merge conflicts. Hands on working with Git. * Python and networking APIs, Sockets, Telnetlib, pysnmp, ncclient, ciscoconfparse. * Paramiko SSH and Netmiko Integrating Python and network devices using SSH. Netmiko, Netmiko methods. Hands on Netmiko. * PyEZ Juniper, NETCONF, installing PyEZ, a first pyEZ script, pyEZ configuration management. Hands on Juniper configuration management with pyEZ. * NAPALM What is NAPALM, NAPALM operations, getters, Replace, merge, compare, commit, discard. Hands on Configuration with NAPALM. Integrating ansible and NAPALM. * Python and REST REST APIs, enabling the REST API. Accessing the REST API with a browser, cURL, Python and REST, the request library. Hands on Using a REST API with network devices.