75 Courses in London

COMPLETE RUBY PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course starts with a quick-start session and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up. Hands on sessions follow all the major sessions to reinforce the theory. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Read Ruby programs. * Write Ruby programs. * Debug Ruby programs. COMPLETE RUBY PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to program in Ruby. * Prerequisites: Software development fundamentals * Duration 3 days COMPLETE RUBY PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction A tour of Ruby, Try Ruby, A suduko solver in Ruby. * The Structure and execution of Ruby Lexical structure, Syntactic structure, Files structure, Program encoding, Program execution. * Datatypes and objects Numbers, text, Arrays, Hashes, Ranges, Symbols, True, false, and nil, Objects. * Expressions and operators Literals and keyword literals, Variable references, Constant references, Method invocations, Assignments, Operators. * Statements and control structures Conditionals, loops, Iterators and enumerable objects, Blocks, Altering flow control, Exceptions and exception handling, BEGIN and END, Threads, fibres and continuations. * Methods, Procs, Lambdas and closures Defining simple methods, Method names, Methods and parentheses, Method arguments, Procs and lambdas, Closures, Method objects, Functional programming. * Classes and modules Defining a simple class, Method visibility: public, protected, privates, Subclassing and inheritance, Object creation and initialization, Modules, Loading and requiring modules, Singleton methods and Eigenclass, Method lookup, Constant lookup. * Reflection and metaprogramming Types, classes and modules, Evaluating strings and blocks, Variables and constants, Methods, Hooks, Tracing, ObjectSpace and GV, Custom control structures, Missing methods and missing constants, Dynamically creating methods, Alias chaining. * The Ruby platform Strings, Regular expressions, Numbers and Math, Dates and times, Collections, Files and directories, Input/output, Networking, Threads and concurrency. * The Ruby environment Invoking the Ruby interpreter, The Top-level environment, Practical extraction and reporting shortcuts, Calling the OS, Security.

UNIX SHELL PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course has been designed as a follow on course for the XML primer course. The course looks at the use of XSLT in the transforming and styling XML documents. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Read shell scripts. * Write shell scripts. * Use different types of quotes. * Recognise the role of shell scripts within the UNIX system. UNIX SHELL PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers developing programs under UNIX. Anyone working with XML. Administrators Support personnel who wish to find out more about the workings of UNIX or write simple utility programs. * Prerequisites: UNIX fundamentals Some programming experience would be useful although not essential. * Duration 2 days UNIX SHELL PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Review of UNIX fundamentals * Basic shell scripts What does the shell do? How are commands executed? Different shells. What is a shell script? Comments, creating shell scripts. * Variables Setting variables, using variables, set, scope, export, sourcing, environmental variables, read. * Positional parameters 0 to $9, $#, $* and others. shift parameter substitution. * Control statements The test command, The if statement, while loops, for loops, The case statement, Special characters, Redirection of errors, here documents, quoting. * Arithmetic in shell scripts The expr command. * System shell scripts * Screen handling The terminfo database The tput comand * Avanced issues (optional session) Shell functions, getopts, xargs, debugging shell scripts, portability issues. Extras in the Korn shell. * Optimising shell scripts The time command, performance tips.

SOCKETS PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course for programmers using Sockets. It is important to recognise that the course assumes that delegates are already familiar with TCP/IP and Python. Practical exercises follow all the major theory sessions. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Read Python programs which use Sockets. * Write Python programs which use Sockets. * Debug Python programs which use Sockets. SOCKETS PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers working with network applications. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers Python for network engineers * Duration 2 days SOCKETS PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is a socket? Review of IP, ICMP, UDP vs TCP, IP addresses, protocol numbers, ports. API's, UNIX I/O, sockets. SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM. Hands on Compile and run code. * The systems calls Clients and servers, structs, socket(), bind(), connect(), listen(), accept(), send(), recv(), sendto (), recvfrom(), close(), shutdown(), getpeername(), gethostname(). Hands on Walk through of example client and server code. * First code TCP connections, passive opens, active opens. Hands on Write a simple 'hello world' server and client. * Application protocols User character stream, ASCII turn taking, binary protocols. Hands on Raw SMTP, Writing a mail client. * Clients Concurrency, polling, threads, event driven programming. Hands on Conferencing application. * Servers Concurrency, stateful, stateless. Forks and execs. inetd. Hands on Running servers with and without inetd, chroot jails, conferencing server modifications. * Advanced techniques Blocking, select(), partial send(s). Raw sockets, example sockets using Java, Perl and PHP. Hands on A broadcast application.

ADVANCED C++ TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The course will give a broad overview of the C++ Programming language, focusing on modern C++, up to C++17. This course will cover the use of the Standard Library, including containers, iterator, function objects and algorithms. From the perspective of application development, a number of design patterns will be considered. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Write C++ programs using the more esoteric language features. * Utilise OO techniques to design C++ programs. * Use the standard C++ library. * Exploit advanced C++ techniques ADVANCED C++ TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers needing to write C++ code. Programmers needing to maintain C++ code. * Prerequisites: C++ programming foundation. * Duration 5 days ADVANCED C++ TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Study of a string class Create a string class as a means to investigate many issues, involving the use of operator overloading and including overloading new and delete. Creation of the class will also require consideration of 'const correctness'. * Exception handling Consider the issues involved in exception handling including the concept of exception safety. * Templates Review definition of template functions, including template parameter type deduction. Introduction to template metaprogramming. Newer features including template template parameters and variadic templates. Creation of template classes. * Design patterns Introduction to Design Patterns and consideration of a number of patterns, such as, factory method, builder, singleton and adapter. * The standard C++ library (STL) Standard Library features, such as, Containers, Iterator, Function Objects and Algorithms. Introduction to Lambda expressions. * C++ and performance The writing of code throughout the course will be oriented towards performant code, including use of R Value references and 'move' semantics. * Pointers The use of pointers will be considered throughout the course. Smart pointers will be considered to improve program safety and help avoid the use of 'raw' pointers. * Threading This section will consider the creation of threads and synchronisation issues. A number of synchronisation primitives will be considered. Async and the use of Atomic will also be considered. * New ANSI C++ features Summarising some of the newer features to be considered are: Auto, Lambdas expression, smart pointers, variadic templates and folds, R Value references and tuple together with structured binding.

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.