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Andrew Cumming
teaches at the School of Computing, Napier
University, Edinburgh, UK.
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Room C49 at the Merchiston campus, ext. 2753. |
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10 Colinton Rd, EH10 5DT |
Telephone: |
(0131) 455 2753 |
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MCSD |
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
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Professional
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Research/KTP/Training
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Babes
- babe of the month, January 2004
- babe of the month, June 2000
- babe of the month, March 1997
- babe of the month, July 1995.
More recent pictures 1 and
2
Mostly quotes and anecdotes concerning:
stink ants,
the real world,
muscle and blood,
civilization,
plan,
bombs,
machines,
TQA,
ideas,
beef,
foreign investment,
the Third Way,
another hundred years,
moby hack,
a culture of failure,
chiasmus
electronic tagging
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Acknowledgements
- Some of the Celtic designs were scanned in from a book by Courtney Davis
from the Dover Design Series. Dover Design produce a range of good value,
copyright-free books. They are available from many bookshops including the
Scottish Museum Bookshop in Chamber Street.
- The GIF's have a transparent background thanks to transgif
a perl program from Jeffrey Friedl
a.cumming.FAQ
Will you help me with some SQL/Access/Java/perl problem?
- I am usually happy to help with these kinds of things.
There are some things
you can do to make it more productive and respect my time:
- Form a group - if there are several people stuck on the same thing.
- Don't ask for an appointment if you can avoid it.
- Call me from the JKCC on the white
phone at the help desk, 2753 (I prefer to come to the JKCC rather than
use my machine in my office).
- Be ready for me (logged in, with the code ready).
Got any useful tip or tricks for MS Access
- Check out Access tips and tricks
Can I have the notes for last week's lecture?
- Most of the notes for my lectures and tutorials can be found at
the appropriate module page. There are links to the module pages
at my SoC web page
You would be much better advised to make it to the lecture.
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- Teaching at ZZULI - Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China.
- Teaching programming and database to Chinese students as part of the collaboration between Napier and ZZULI
- English Week at IUT2 Grenoble, France
- I taught some XML to DUT students.
21st Jan 2008. Thanks to Dan Frost
- SUF and ZZULI
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20th Nov to 27th Nov 2005 - trip to China to give demonstration lectures
and discuss articulation onto Napier Undergraduate programmes.
- Shangdong University of Finance
- Zhengzhou Institute of Light Engineering
- 2nd April 2007 The Higher Education Academy, Information and Computer Sciences, Programming Workshop
- Sally Smith presented our work on progzoo, a gentle introduction to programming
- Learning Conference 2005
- The Twelfth International Conference on Learning, Grenada, Spain 11-14 July 2005
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3rd Workshop on Teaching Learning and Assessment in Databases TLAD 2005
- Gordon is presenting our paper at this one.
4th July 2005, Online Assessment and Checking of SQL: Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism
- Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2004)
- Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 December 2004
- Evonet summer school 2002
- Szeged, Hungary
- SSDBM 2002
- Edinburgh
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PATAT 2002
- I shall not be making it this year :( Gent, Belgium
- Evonet Summer School
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27 August - 1 September Thessaloniki, Greece
- PATAT 2000,
pictures
- The 3rd international conference
on the Practice And Theory
of Automated Timetabling
Wednesday, 16th August - Friday, 18th August 2000
Fachhochschule Konstanz -
University of Applied Sciences
Constance, Germany
- ICANNGA99
- Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms
- 1998 European Juggling Convention
- The 1998 Euro Juggle fest was in Edinburgh - Andrew missed it.
- ESSEC '98
- EVONET Summer School in Tours, France
- PATAT'97
- He attended PATAT,
the 2nd international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated
Timetabling in Toronto.
- UITP96
- He attended UITP
"User Interfaces for Theorem Proving Assistants" in York in July.
- BJC'96
- The British
Juggling Convention was held in Edinburgh this April. Andrew missed
it.
- AISB96
- Andrew was at AISB96
in Brighton from the 2nd April. This conference was held at the University
of Sussex where Andrew spent his undergraduate years.
- ICPTAT'95
- Andrew was on the organising committee of the First International Conference
on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling ICPTAT95
Which was held at Napier University in August.
He presented a
proposal for a standard data format for timetables: TAT.
Where does the name Ryka come from?
- Ryka is an Iranian name, meaning loving boy.
What is that thing at the top of your page that crashes my browser /
asks for a plugin that doesn't exist / slows my whole system down to
crawling point / generally disturbs the otherwise placid world
wide web?
An animated GIF, the latest thing, cool or WHAT?
A Java applet, these things will change the web for ever.
What did you look like in 1997 or 2002 or 2011?

- Is it true that you know Clive Tooth?
- Yes, I met him a couple of times - I was working for Unisys on the S40.
- Is it true that you know Peter Burden?
- Yes, I met him at Wolverhampton - summer 2004 during validation of a
new degree programme. He has a page rated 8 by Google. The
Wolverhampton academic map
was probably the first useful thing that I found on the web.
- Are you really Microsoft Certified?
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Absolutely, I've been teaching several Microsoft exams C# .NET for Web and Windows and a Database exam. The transcript can be checked at
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts
Transcript ID: 696260
Access Code:acumming