Andrew Cumming

The Hilbert Space Filling Curve Hilbert's Space Filling Curve is a one dimensional curve which visits every point of a two dimensional space. Read a short article on this strange beast and get the Windows Screen Saver which draws it on your idle screen.
	Celtic Knotwork Try your hand at sorting out the Celtic Knot Puzzle. Or follow one of these links to WWW sites of Celtic interest. Ceolas at Stanford University.
Lissajous Read the entry on Lissajous from Grolier Encyclopedia. Get the screen saver, SHM.SCR (MS Windows). Try the Java applet
	Some experiments with postscript PostScript was used to create the following: a tower in GIF format and bubbles and waves in raw PostScript. If you would like to try creating your own postscript pictures and you have a post script engine such as Ghostview handy then try writing PostScript programs.
Tower of Hanoi The easy three ring tower, or the more challenging four ring example. The ML code that generated the Hanoi html files. A little about the Tower of Hanoi and it's solution.

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

Old plans

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 .

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.

Have you been on any trips lately?

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

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

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

PATAT 2002

I shall not be making it this year :( Gent, Belgium

Evonet Summer School

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.

An embedded VRML world - without doubt the new wave!
The animation is controlled by a cookie - it cycles through different sequences - you can turn it on and off using this button

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?

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