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Web Design Foundations 4: Advanced CSS and HTML topics

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

web design foundation

Title: Web Design Foundations 4: Advanced CSS and HTML topics
Location: MadLab
Description: Web Design Foundations is a four-part modular course aimed at anyone who wants to learn about how the web works.
Date: 11-06-2012 and 18-06-2012
Start Time: 18:00
End Time: 21:30
Booking: Book a place 





Web Design Foundations 4: Advanced CSS and HTML topics

Advanced CSS and HTML topics takes HTML and CSS further, looking at advanced topics such as multi-column layouts, cross-browser issues, CSS sprites, faux columns, optimizing layouts for different devices such as mobile phones, CSS3 transitions, transforms and animation, HTML5 video and forms, and more.

What you need to be familiar with

The Web Design Foundations course assumes no knowledge beyond basic competency with computers, and a familiarity with using the Web. It is suitable for beginners. If you want to start the course part way through, you should understand the contents of the previous sessions first.

If you are a complete novice, please look into Web Design Foundations 1: Introduction to the Web, and web design or Web Design Foundation 2: HTML Basics or Web Design Foundation 3: CSS Basics

The course is also suitable for those with previous web development experience who want to update their skillset to modern best practice.

Equipment you’ll need

  • Yourself. Refreshments will be provided.
  • A laptop of some kind. Mac, Windows or Linux is fine.
  • A decent text editor (recommendations listed in sign-up document below)

Costs and times

£100 for the full course. This course is broken up into two Monday evenings (11th and 18th June) for three hours per workshop.

To prepare for the course…

More information – Web Design Foundations 4: Advanced HTML and CSS Basics

Web Design Foundations is a four-part modular course aimed at anyone who wants to learn about how the web works from the very basic beginnings and be taken step by step, in a friendly informal style, up to the point where they know how to build a basic modern best practices web site and put it online. This includes a bit of theory, but it largely focuses on getting your hands dirty with code (such as HTML and CSS), and learning how it REALLY works.

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Beginners guide to Arduino and Physical Computing

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Arduino

Title: Beginners guide to Arduino and Physical Computing
Location: MadLab
Description: A course aimed at anyone who wants to learn about  Physical computing
Date: 09-06-2012
Start Time: 10:00
End Time: 17:30
Booking: Sign up here 







‘Physical Computing’ and Arduino devices have made physical interaction affordable and available to non-experts. Whether creating interactive installations, information systems, prototyping products, or making new interfaces, there is a whole world of DIY electronics, interaction design and rapid prototyping available through this platform.

'Beginners Arduino & Physical Computing' Omniversity course components

Real World Examples

But what can you do with an Arduino? Here are some of our favourite projects:

What you need to be familiar with

You’ll need to know how to use your computer, edit files, and save them. Some programming background is useful, but not essential; if you’ve ever written Javascript, Pascal, C, C++, Java or Actionscript, you’ll find the Arduino programming language very familiar. If you’ve written Macros in Excel or any desktop software, you’ll find this will help you understand what’s happening.

Software and costs

The fee of the course is £120. Included in this price is a hot buffet lunch, with vegetarian options (please notify us if you have other dietary requirements)

You will also receive an Arduino Uno, breadboard, holder, USB cable and a component bundle. Each bundle contains jumper wires, 2 pushbuttons, 2 potentiometers, resistors, 10 LEDs, and a photoresistor.

Additionally, you will receive an electronic copy of the teaching materials, software, and programmes we write on a USB stick.

All software is freely available and copies will be distributed with the course materials on the day.

We will be using:

Equipment you’ll need

You will need to bring a computer, ideally a laptop, with a recent version of  Linux, Windows or OSX installed. You will need a USB interface on this computer.

To prepare for the course…

Further information about Beginners guide to Arduino and Physical Computing

 

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Transit of Venus 2012

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus

Title: Transit of Venus 2012
Location: Near Manchester United’s training ground in Salford
Description: MadLab is hosting a one-off event at Crabtree’s home where we’ll join a NASA feed that’ll chart the transit from a space-base in Hawaii.
Date: 05-06-2012
Start Time: 20:00
End Time: 23:00
Booking: £10 admission price includes a donation to MadLab, food and a drink

 

 

 

One of the rarest astronomical events is happening next month for the last time in all our lifetimes – the transit of Venus.

To mark the last time Venus will pass directly between the Sun and Earth until 2117, MadLab is hosting a unique event at the Salford home of one of the scientists involved in a key moment in our understanding of the planetary alignment.

The transit of Venus happens in pairs, eight years apart – but separated by more than a century. The last spectacular sighting was in 2004 so if you missed that, make sure you don’t miss out on your final chance to take part in this remarkable happening.

MadLab is inviting amateur stargazers to join them in The Priory, Salford, the home of William Crabtree, himself a cloth merchant, astronomer and scientist – a 17th century citizen scientist of the kind that thrive at our central Manchester hack space today.

In 1639, he and friend Jeremiah Horrocks were the first people to ever record the transit, proving the Copernican theory that the planets orbit the Sun, not the Earth.

The momentous discovery was commemorated centuries later by Ford Madox Brown, with his Manchester Town Hall mural Crabtree Watching the Transit of Venus AD1639. The piece shows Crabtree and his family watching the transit, surrounded by the billowing cloths of his trade, from the first floor window of his house – in the hamlet then known as Broughton Spout. Incredibly, that very same room exists and is completely intact.

This June 5, on the night of the transit of Venus, MadLab in association with Salford City Council, are opening Crabtree’s house and gardens to the public for a one-night-only event.

A NASA feed will be broadcast, tracking the transit from Mauna Kea in Hawaii, with projection mapping simulating the transit just as Crabtree observed it. There will be talks from NASA and Jodrell Bank scientists.

To recreate the special moment, Ford Madox Brown’s painting will be recreated in situ, with his original sketches loaned for the night from the Manchester Art Gallery and furniture and fabric provided by Ordsall Hall.

Space-themed music from Irfan (Rainy City Music) and food will be provided to complete the transit of Venus night.

We will be releasing the exact details of the location to attendees prior to the event.

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Leila Khaled – Icon of Palestinian Liberation launch

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Leila-Khaled

Title: Leila Khaled – Icon of Palestinian Liberation launch
Location: MadLab
Description: Join us in celebrating the launch of Leila Khaled Icon of Palestinian Liberation by Sarah Irving
Date: 25-05-2012
Start Time: 19:00
End Time: 22:00
Booking: £3 with complimentary drink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dubbed ‘the poster girl of Palestinian militancy’, Leila Khaled’s image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.

In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled’s turbulent life are explored, including the dramatic events of the hijackings, her involvement in the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (a radical element within the PLO), her opposition to the Oslo peace process and her activism today.

Leila Khaled’s example gives unique insights into the Palestinian struggle through one remarkable life – from the tension between armed and political struggle, to the decline of the secular left and the rise of Hamas, and the role of women in a largely male movement.

Sarah Irving is a writer and researcher who has lived in Manchester for 15 years and is the author of three books on Palestine. She has worked for various periods in the Middle East for over a decade, as a human rights observer, fair trade good buyer, tour guide and journalist.

We also hope to welcome Linda Clair, chair of Manchester PSC and a friend of Leila Khaled since the 1980s.

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Manchester Windows 8 Camp

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Windows 8 Camp

Title: Manchester Windows 8 Camp
Location: MadLab
Description: Learn to create Windows 8 Apps with HTML and JS
Date: 22-05-2012
Start Time: 18:00
End Time: 23:30
Booking: Free, but limited










The Windows 8 consumer preview is now available to download and develop for. However, the Windows Store won’t be open for apps until Windows 8 is available for consumer release. So… we’re offering the opportunity to get in early…

Last week ubelly posted how to get started with Windows 8 development, but they’re also hosting a series of free Windows 8 Camps, which will offer a hands-on approach to learning Windows 8 app development. You’ll learn how to build a Metro Style app using HTML and JS, get a primer on the Metro design language, and find out how to get your app ready for the Windows Store. Once you have the idea for an app, you can join the Windows 8 Developer Linked In Group to get your app into the Windows Store.

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