Intermediate/Advanced Lindy Hop class for experienced dancers! The class will kick off with footwork and partnered drills for connection & frame followed by building better basics. The second half of the class will focus on one topic which will vary from week to week and allow plenty of time for supervised practice and feedback.
Fast Beginners Balboa Workshop with Simon Selmon Learn this popular 1930s Swing dance. Join Simon, one of the first UK Balboa dancers of the Swing resurgence and learn the basics you need to dance the Balboa and how to incorporate it into your Lindy Hop or Jive. Class will include the Uphold, Downhold, Rock Step basics, Come Around, Grapevine and Lollies. Suitable for those who have tried couple of taster classes before or you have other dance experience.
A lively night of hot Swing music and dancing brought to you by SwingdanceUK and his founder Simon Selmon who have been going since 1986, including a 20-year run of weekly Stompin’ nights at the 100 Club, spreading the love of Lindy Hop far and wide featuring live Swing music from Chris Dean's Swing Shift band & beginners & intermediate Lindy classes!
Learn to Swing Dance in a Day! with Simon Selmon Learn the foundations of Lindy Hop, this popular 1940s partner dance. You will learn both the 6 and 8 count Lindy Hop plus some Lindy Charleston. By the end of this session we guarantee you will be able to dance a whole song - and smile at the same time! This workshop with Simon is for absolute beginners and those who have been dancing 6 months or less. No experience necessary or partner required.
Richard Powers (US) is a full-time instructor in dance history and contemporary social dance forms at Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms. Saturday 31 August 2024 10.30am-1.30pm Ragtime Era Workshop including One Step & Animal Dances More bands these days who are incorporating Ragtime music into their repertoire so why not learn dances that go with the music! They were one of the forerunners of the Lindy Hop. Sunday 1 September 2024 10am-1pm Historical Blues & Foxtrot Workshop What do you do when slower songs come on? Let's find out!
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
Learn to Lindy Hop 3-hour workshop with Simon Selmon Lindy Hop - the grand-daddy of all the Swing dances, combining 6 count, 8 count & Charleston variations, is an expressive, improvised dance form that is still enjoyed today, almost 100 years after it's inception! This workshop is aimed at Fast Beginners and those who have done some Lindy Hop classes before but want to understand the technique and connection behind the moves. Simon, who has been dancing the Lindy Hop since 1986 will be sharing his experience of this dance form. It's about letting the spirit of the dance move you, having fun and feeling more confident on the dance floor. No partner required and whilst no experience is necessary, the class will move at a faster pace than absolute beginners and is suitable for those with some experience.
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
