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- Subject: PHIGS Toolkit One-Day Introductory Course
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- ********* COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT *********
-
- PHIGS TOOLKIT One-Day INTRODUCTORY COURSE
- University of Manchester, 23rd September 1992
-
- ******** BOOK YOUR PLACE ON THE COURSE NOW! ***********
-
- The PHIGS Toolkit is an integrated suite of software tools for PHIGS
- application programmers, and is freely available to the academic community.
-
- This one-day introductory course is designed to introduce PHIGS programmers
- to the PHIGS Toolkit, and provide instruction in its use with practical
- exercises.
-
- The purpose of the PHIGS Toolkit is to help application programmers to
- program more effectively and securely using PHIGS. The Toolkit provides a
- number of tools of various levels of complexity in order to make
- programming with PHIGS quicker, and less painful. To the programmer, the
- functions provided by PHIGS are supplemented with a set of additional
- functions, and a typical application will use both `raw' PHIGS functions as
- well as Toolkit functions.
-
- Tools in the PHIGS Toolkit are divided into two categories: programming
- tools, and high-level tools. Programming tools are single-purpose
- procedures which help applications programmers to construct PHIGS programs
- more quickly and reliably. The high-level tools provide programmers with
- means for visualising and debugging structure networks.
-
- The main features of the PHIGS Toolkit are:
-
- o Comprehensive transformations library
- o PHIGS utilities library
- o Automatic drawing of structure network hierarchy diagrams
- o Interactive CSS debugger
- o Interactive view editor
- o Complete PHIGS textual interpreter
- o Window and menu system implemented using PHIGS structures
- o Comprehensive colour model support library
- o Runs with C and FORTRAN for SunPHIGS 1.x and 2.0 on SunOS
- o Runs with C and FORTRAN for DEC PHIGS 2.3a on VAX/VMS
- o Runs with the PEX-SI
- o Full source code provided
- o Demonstration programs
- o Comprehensive documentation
-
- Course outline
- --------------
-
- This course is intended to provide an introduction to the PHIGS Toolkit.
- There will be practical sessions using PHIGS, with examples in C and
- Fortran. The sessions will cover:
-
- o A review of PHIGS, and the need for higher-level procedures.
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- o The philosophy and organisation of the PHIGS Toolkit.
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- o Use of the programming tools.
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- o Interaction with the high-level tools.
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- o Hands-on experience of the PHIGS Toolkit.
-
- Course attendees
- ----------------
-
- Attendees are expected to be familiar with PHIGS, and to have experience in
- PHIGS programming. No prior experience with the PHIGS Toolkit will be
- required. Familiarity with UNIX is also considered necessary since the
- practical sessions will involve building and running programs on UNIX
- workstations. The course fee is 50 pounds.
-
- Course presenters
- -----------------
-
- All the course presenters have published and taught widely on PHIGS and
- have extensive experience of implementing and using PHIGS for teaching and
- research applications. The staff are: Toby Howard (Lecturer, Department of
- Computer Science), Terry Hewitt (Director, Computer Graphics Unit,
- Manchester Computing Centre), Gareth Williams (Research Assistant,
- Department of Computer Science) and Steve Larkin (National Visualisation
- Support Officer, Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester Computing Centre.)
-
- Registration details
- --------------------
-
- Registration Fee: 50 pounds.
-
- Registration fee includes attendance, course materials, coffee/tea, lunch
- and VAT. Refunds, less 10 pounds cancellation fee, will be given only for
- cancellations in writing received more than 14 days before the course.
- However, registration may be transferred to a named individual at any time
- without financial penalty. We reserve the right to cancel the course if
- insufficient students register. Please use this form as an invoice and
- make cheques payable to `University of Manchester'. Please write the name
- of the course on the reverse side of the cheque.
-
- Please return this form to:
- Ms Mary McDerby
- Manchester Computing Centre
- University of Manchester
- Oxford Road
- Manchester M13 9PL
- Tel 061 275 6095
- Fax 061 275 6040
- mcderby@uk.ac.mcc.cgu
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