From: toby@cs.man.ac.uk (Toby Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x.pex,uk.events
Subject: PHIGS Toolkit One-Day Introductory Course
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:15:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.graphics
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester


                  ********* 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.

o The philosophy and organisation of the PHIGS Toolkit.

o Use of the programming tools.

o Interaction with the high-level tools.

o Hands-on experience of the PHIGS Toolkit.

Course attendees
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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
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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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Toby Howard    Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Lecturer               Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
                                                   Tel: +44 61-275-6274
toby@cs.man.ac.uk                                  Fax: +44 61-275-6236
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