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60 Canon Bayley Road

Bonavista, Newfoundland

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Christopher Greaves

Training

When the weather is too cold and wet to play outdoors, sit inside and upgrade your skills with the master.

Co-Operative Computer Clinic and Courses

At The Commons, in your office, in your home, or in mine. Your choice.

Training is delivered at cost: How much does a course cost?

CPRGreaves@GMail.com VOICE: 709-218-7927

What Does "Co-Operative" Mean?

It means that together, we work. I work, and you work.

In both the clinics and the training courses especially you work.

Of special interest to me is that you do most of the work!

Give Me an Example

Suppose you want to learn about Excel. You ask me to deliver a course on Excel. Of course! Not a problem!

But I tell you that a course needs four people on it to make the training effective, so you round up three other people, you contact the facility (for example the Chamber of Commerce) and book the dates and times and the meeting room; you pay the Chamber directly for the room rental and the cost of the printed course notes, and then you contact me and tell me when to show up and deliver the training.

I don't have to do any paperwork, I don't do any book-keeping of money and accounts. My dream come true!

Classroom Training Courses

… are held in The Commons.

Doors open fifteen minutes before class.

Classes start on the dot, and finish on the dot,

How do I know which course is right for me?

Prerequisites: Most applications courses require prior completion of “Windows for Professional Users”

What is Word Processing? a Spreadsheet? a Database?

Now taking bookings.

CPRGreaves@GMail.com Voice: 709-218-7927

What is MSWord? Designing an Document; Components of a Word-Processing Document; The Theory of Life; Shortcut Keys; Help Screens; Styles; Fields; On-the-fly macros; Bookmarks; Hyperlinks; Page Layout and Printing; Build your Own Tips-and-Tricks Book; Project Diary; Corporate Documentation Standards

ABCs of Spreadsheet Development

Now taking bookings.

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What is Excel?; Designing a Worksheet; Data Versus Formulas; Prove the Limerick; Our Solar System; The Theory of Life; Shortcut Keys; Linear, Never Circular; Help Screens; Styles; Functions; Named Ranges; Page Layout and Printing; Paste Special; Multiple Sheets, Multiple Workbooks; Training Survey; Calculate Working Hours; Staffing Schedules; Business Plan; Training Costs; Net Worth; Critical Path Analysis

Windows for Professional Users

Now taking bookings.

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Computers – what are they good for? Theory of Life; Magic in Shortcut Keys; The Golden Rules of Windows; Windows Explorer; MSWord: Styles, Field Codes, Symbols; MSWord: Mail-Merge; MSWord: Macros; Keyboard Macros; MSWord: Best Practices; MSExcel: Best Practices; MSExcel: Functions: Pointing; MSExcel: Styles, Conditional Formatting; Paste Special; MSExcel: Charts

Your Data

Now taking bookings.

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Your Data; Introductions; Prerequisites; Demonstration; Capacity Mega/Giga/Tera; Hard Drive; CD/ DVD Burner; Partitioning; Formatting; Reformatting; Encrypting; Mirror/MIR; System Image; Backup Copy; Copy; Proof; Value; Value; Fire Proof/ Resistant; Daily Versus Weekly; More the Better?; Searching utilities; Duplicate Backups; Forums; Defragmenting; MTBF; Deleting Duplicates; Sun Microsystems; Raid; Audit-Trail Versions; Blotter; Substitute; Backup Versus Update; 2TB USB Drives as Backups; CD/ DVD as Backups; Transaction Processing.

Word Processing from Scratch

Now taking bookings.

CPRGreaves@GMail.com Voice: 709-218-7927

What is MSWord?; Designing an Document; Components of a Word-Processing Document; The Theory of Life; Shortcut Keys; Help Screens; Styles; Fields; On-the-fly macros; Bookmarks; Hyperlinks; Page Layout and Printing; Build your Own Tips-and-Tricks Book; Project Diary; Corporate Documentation Standards.

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More Topics in Word/Vba

Applicability Of Structures; Assign a Word Macro To Keyboard; Assign a Word Macros To Macro Buttons; Compound Macros Word VBA; Convert To Table; Cross Application Development; Document Automation; Drop Duplicates; Intercepting Document Events; Libraries Hooking An INI File To A GUI Form; Libraries Use Of UW.dot; Library Development; Macros In Word; Numbering from Templates; Objects Properties And Methods; Process All Cells In a Word Table; Reading Data From a Text File; Regular Expressions; Stacks; Word Edit Access Data; Word Process Access Data; Word Transpose a Table Via Excel

Business Development (Entrepreneurs)

How to get clients to send you a cheque;

Business Cards for Mature Professionals

Don’t spend your time contacting prospects. Make them want to contact you. Why business cards? What doesn’t work? What does work? Web! Design your card. Evaluate your card. Learn how to design a business card that will go to work for you, carrying the message that your prospects should contact you NOW! Examine current cards in the light of a logical examination of the real why and wherefore of business cards.

Anatomy of a Proposal

A Company With a Broken Web Site; President Called Me Back on Wednesday; He Called Back and Suggested I Chat With His Son; I “Touched” Him With a Phone Call; He Sent Me a Two-Line Email Asking About a Project.; Jotting Down Ideas and Questions.; I made two pages of hand-written notes.; I Drafted and Typed a Questionnaire; He emailed back Answers to My Questions.; I Drafted the Proposal.; I Issued the Proposal; Authorization Request; Re-Runs; Modifications and Enhancements; Did I Get the Job?

Diplomacy (Managers and Team Leaders)

Alan B. Callahmer’s game of management and communication skills. No element of luck at all. Uses a map of Europe before the First Balkan war. A seven-sided chess board, seven players, three “kings” each. To win, a player must dominate the other players. Cannot win alone, must form allies and convince them to allow self to win! Topics include the schematic map, reverberation calculations, types of game (face-to-face, in-house, ‘zines, by email, online, gunboat diplomacy)

Karel the Robot (Programming Skills)

Karel is a simple robot with less than a dozen instructions. That is too complex for us. We will make do with Three instructions. We will develop a program that will enable Karel to escape the classroom through the doorway. When Karel has left the room, we all go home. These sessions star Chris Greaves as “Karel The Robot”.

Subs Machine (Programming Skills)

Van der Poel postulated a computer with only one instruction. Fifty years ago mainframe computers had 100 to 200 hard-wired instructions. RISC computers came along with fewer instructions.

But a computer with only one instruction? How useful could that be?

It turns out to be supremely useful on several fronts:-

(1) If memory is cheap, you can build a functioning microcomputer from parts ordered through the DEC handbook. NAND/NOR gates and the like.

(2) You can build an interpreter that takes in a hybrid of APL and FORTRAN and spits out a program that can be run on the SUBS machine. It follows that since you can simulate the SUBS machine in FORTRAN, you can run this single-instruction simulation on the single-instruction computer itself.

(3) Learn essential skills in the design and development of macros.

(4) Learn essential skills in the design and development of libraries of code.

(5) Learn why top-down program design is important

(6) Learn why bottom-up program coding is important.

(7) Learn what self-testing procedures are and how they can cut your program development time in half.

SUFE (Ecology)

Learn how to learn how your brain works!

Something everyone can do.

Second Use - learn how to find a second use for everything

Vermicomposting - special section for cold-climate apartment dwellers

Grey Water - you don't need gravel beds and miles of piping

Energy - There's more to it than switching off the light

Projects - Whimsical views of my weekend weakened efforts at SUFE

Cool Places to Donate Your Stuff

The GWS and CYo’C (Engineering Miracles)

The Goldfields Water Supply – an engineering miracle from 1900. Learn how an engineer made water run 340 MILES from Perth (at sea level) to Kalgoorlie (1,700 feet above sea level) by gravity.

Presented by Chris Greaves who was raised on this water supply.

Turing Machines (Programming Skills)

The first path is the business of writing Turing Machines. You will solve problems in Unary, Binary, and Decimal notation. And - why not? - write a Turing Machine to do arithmetic in Roman Notation?

The second path is the development of a full-fledged interpreter. Why not? I have developed an interpreter in Microsoft Word VBA, and you can do it too!

Along the way we will learn some of amazing history behind the origins of the stored-program digital computer technology that we take for granted today.

Step back in time tomorrow!

Vermicomposting (Ecology)

A Cat-Food Bag Vermicomposter; A Counter-top Vermicomposter; A Grate Idea; A Puzzle; Bacteria; Bacterial Filter; Balcony Vermicomposter; Beetroots; Best Tower Yet!; Broom Closet Vermicomposter; By-Products; Cardboard; Carry-In, Carry-Out; Castings Separator; Cloning a Vermicomposter; Composting; Covering My Bets; Demonstration; Diaries; Disposition Of Soup; Egg Shells; Eggs By Mail; European Night-Crawlers versus Red Wrigglers; Experimental Methods; FAQ; Feces; Fines; Finishing Chest; Fun With Food; Grey Water Filter; Harvesting Castings; Heat; Hot Climate; House Plants; I'll Offer Some Thoughts; Introduction; It Had To End Sometime; It Had to Happen Sometime!; Kitchen Scraps Collection; Kitty Litter; Last Legs; Layering A Bin; Lined Tower; Living Soil (the book!); Mini Indoors; Moisture Level; Monitoring The Balcony Vermicomposter; More About Paper Pulp; Nurseries; On The Balcony; Paper Scraps Collection; Paper Vermicomposting; Pasteurizing; Preparing For Winter; Rebuilding The Balcony Vermicomposter; Restocking The Balcony Vermicomposter; Seeding; Separating; Shovel In, Lift Off, Scoop Out; Shred Or Tear; Shredded Paper and Coffee; Small-Scale Harvesting; Tapered Vermicomposter; The First Snow; Vermicastings; Waste Not, Want Not!; Winterizing The Spider Plants; Winterizing the Vermicomposter; Worm Suppliers and anything else you would like to know about Vermicomposting.

Why Your Trip to Paris was a Disaster (Culture)

So, you thought you’d be like a real Parisian and sit on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for two hours watching the scene but the waiter bumped you out of your seats five minutes after you had paid you bill?

So, people in your local café seemed sullen, when you’d heard that they would be friendly?

You loved the subway, and spent the entire two weeks underground because you didn’t understand the logic behind the bus route numbering?

And you never enjoyed the ten thousand square kilometres of the Île de France and the Transilean network, nor any of the 5,000 suburban bus routes?

And to top it all off, although you learned French in High School, you still don’t know when to use “Bonjour” and when to use “Bonne Journée”.

Hah! Dis donc!

Tiens!

How to Build Your Own Universe

Hydrodgen, Atomic Number, and the Pauli Exclusion Principle, all explained in sixty minutes. Or less.

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