Welcome to SADC course 2009

Information systems, SADC Course 2009 June 23 13:00 – 16:00 Introduction to the computers in the lecture hall. Using internet to find information. Introduction to useful PC software. Help with setting up an e-mail account if needed. Computer software. Introduction to Windows and MS Office applications. June 24 Theories about data modelling and how to build documentation systems and databases. June 25 Theories about data modelling and how to build documentation systems and databases. Exercises in structuring data June 26 Documentation and information. Presentation of the information system, SESTO at NordGen. We add an accession. At the same time looking at the seed databases. And other topics of your interest if there is time left. Information systems, SADC Course 2007

Course info Some course information, the handouts from the computer lectures and some useful links are presented from the course webpage. You are here More info at the course Web page: http://www.nordgen.org/plants/

SADC – website with information about your course How to find: NordGen plants, Internal webtools, SADC summer course Webcalendar

Web Calendar http://www.nordgen.org We will look at how to use the “WebCal” calendar application. Your course agenda is presented in the web calendar. Username: sadc Password: tseug

To edit the schedule for today

Do NOT click the bomb, this will delete the event

Some common software Word processor Spreadsheet Presentation Graphics Database systems Internet

Word processors OpenOffice Writer, MS Word, AbiWord, LaTex, KWord, Emacs, WordPerfect, Lotus Word ... You will find “MS Word” installed on the course computers. You may use this application to write your course report. “OpenOffice Writer” is a good no-cost alternative.

Spreadsheet OpenOffice Calc, MS Excel, KSpread, GNUmeric ... Spreadsheet functionality include calculations with statistical and scientific functions, pivot tables and charts. You may prefer to do calculations and presentation of data as tables or graphs for your course report in a spreadsheet application. You will find MS Excel installed on the course computers.

Presentation MS Power Point, PageMaker, KPresenter, Acrobat, OpenOffice Impress ... At the end of the course you will make a presentation of your report. You may choose to create the presentation with the MS PowerPoint installed on the course computers.

Graphics Adobe Photo Shop, Corel Photo Paint, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, XV, IrFanView ...

Database systems PostgreSQL, MySQL, Visual dBASE, MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle ... A database system would normally include functions to create tables, add data to the tables, extract data from the tables and display the extracted data either on screen or on paper. In a relational database the data storage (tables) are separated from the data display (forms). Further, the two can be linked together by queries allowing you to extract and combine data from multiple tables. This separation gives many benefits, making the whole system more flexible and maintainable. This is the most common database structure today. Client/Server databases are designed to be run over LANs, WANs or the Internet. Necessary for browser based access or many simultaneous users.

Internet Browser: Email: Web-email: Mozilla FireFox, MS Internet Explorer, Opera, Lynx Email: MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird Web-email: Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail

Yahoo! [http://www.yahoo.com] If you don’t already have an email account, then yahoo is another alternative. We will guide those of you who wish through the ‘New account sign-up’ procedure.

Hotmail [http://www.hotmail.com] If you don’t already have an email account, then hotmail is one alternative. We will guide those of you who wish through the ‘New account sign-up’ procedure.

Finding information You can use a search engine like Google to search for information on the internet. You will find more search engines at [http://www.searchenginewatch.com] You will find maps and the flag of your home country at WorldAtlas.com: http;//worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/af.htm or in the CIA World Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Remember to make a shutdown when you leave the computer - or leave it powered on. You should not just simply turn the power of by the power switch at the front.

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