edShare@GCU (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Whiteford, Andrew

ARUK Dorsal MTP transverse

Danyi, Richard

1.3 Removing Brackets

Murchison, Colin

Sustainable Business Development

Step by step instructions on how to embed and link to various edShare content types

Kelt, Marion

Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn   Congratulations! You have successfully added your item to edShare. Now you want to add links or embed codes to GCULearn. This document shows you how to add links to documents, presentations or multimedia items. If you added a multimedia item, remember it usually takes overnight to run all the processes and create the embed code. If the code does not appear the next day, then contact us at edshare@gcu.ac.uk and we will look into it.  Adding a link Go to your edShare item’s page. If there is more than one file attached to the record, then highlight the item you wish to link. Documents (PDF or word) and presentations (PowerPoint) work slightly differently to multimedia files. Here is an example of a PDF file: • Highlight file • Right click the Download link and select copy link address.  • You now have a link ready to add to GCULearn or a web page.    • Sign in to GCULearn • Go to the appropriate place in your module, and click Create item (you can also use Create link, but usually you will want to add some instructions for your students). Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn    • Highlight the text to be linked and click the hyperlink icon.    • Paste the link into the link path box • Set target to open in new window • Click submit    Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn   Multimedia files   • Go to your item in edShare and highlight the appropriate file (if there is more than one) • Go to the embed code displayed below the preview window • Highlight the URL between the two sets of inverted commas and copy it • Insert the link in GCULearn as outlined above  Adding embed codes for multimedia files  • Find your item in edShare • Look for the embed code displayed below the preview window • Click copy embed code button  Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn   • Sign in to GCULearn • Go to the appropriate screen in your module • Click create item • Click the grey HTML button and paste the embed code into the popup window • Click update • Add in the appropriate title information and click submit • The multimedia item will then display in a HTML5 player on your module page  

How to embed edShare items in web pages and GCULearn modules.

Thomson, Allan

Intro to Xray

 M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 1 LAB 1: CREATING OBJECTS  In this lab you will use BlueJ to create and manipulate some Java objects. In an object-oriented program objects often model some kind of real-world “things”. The objects in this lab represent shapes (circles, rectangles, etc.). These objects can also draw visual a representation of themselves so that you can see the effect of anything you do with them.  You should attempt the steps for each task and try to answer the questions that follow some of the steps. It is recommended that you keep a lab note book as you work through the labs and take note of your answers to the questions in each lab. Related reading Lecture Notes  - 1: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming  Working with BlueJ and lab code The software, including BlueJ, that you need for the lab exercises in this module is installed in a Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine (VM) on each PC in the computer labs. Once you have logged in to the PC you can start the appropriate VM as follows:   click on the VMware icon on the desktop – this should open the folder containing the VMs that are on the PC. Each VM is in its own folder.  find the VM folder whose name begins with SEBE-VM-Win8.1x64Ent   open this VM folder and find the file whose type is VMware virtual machine configuration. double-click on this file. VMware Player should start and load the VM. You can view the VM full screen once it has started if you wish.  BlueJ is available on the VM from the Programs item in the Start menu.  You may also want to install BlueJ on your own computer for your personal use. BlueJ is free to download from www.bluej.org, and runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. You will probably need to download and run the version of the BlueJ installer that includes the JDK (Java Development Kit – you’ll learn more about that later in the module) as that is not usually present on Windows or MacOS by default.  Most lab exercises will require you to download starter code from GCULearn. In most cases the code will be in the form of a ZIP archive containing one or more BlueJ projects. Once you have downloaded the appropriate ZIP archive you can extract the contents by right-clicking and selecting 7-zip > Extract files... from the pop-up menu. You can then start BlueJ and use the File>Open Project option to navigate to the folder where you extracted the project and open it.  Note that no hard copies of lab tasks will be given out, so you will need to access them through GCULearn while working in the labs. You can do so in the same VM as you are running BlueJ. Alternatively you can view the lab task on the host PC, switch between host and VM as required.  M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 2 Task 1 : Creating and manipulating objects  Getting started  1. Start BlueJ and use the File>Open Project option to open the project shapes. You can find this project in the examples folder inside the BlueJ application folder. On the lab VMs this is C:\Program Files (x86)\BlueJ\examples. Alternatively, you can download the code from GCULearn.    When the project is opened, BlueJ should look like the screenshot above. There are four classes shown in the main area of the BlueJ window.   2. You may see the classes cross-hatched. This means that they need to be compiled before use. Click the Compile button to compile all the classes. You should ignore any warning dialog that is shown1.  Creating objects  3. Right-click on the Circle class and select new Circle() from the menu. Accept circle1 as the name of the instance in the dialog which is shown. You should now see a Circle object named circle1 in the Object Bench.    4. Similarly, create a Square object in the Object Bench with a suitable name.                                                   1 You can switch off this warning by selecting Tools>Options>Preferences, choose Miscellaneous tab, and uncheck “Show compiler warnings when…..”   M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 3 5. Right-click on circle1 and choose Inspect from the menu. You should see the Object Inspector dialogue which shows the fields of the object.   Q1.1 What colour is the circle? What colour is the square?   6. You can see the objects in the Object Bench, but now you will get each one also to create a visual representation of itself. Call the makeVisible method of each object – to call a method you right-click on the object and select the method name from the menu. You should see a new “picture” window that displays the representations of the shapes.   Calling methods  7. Call the moveDown method of circle1.   Q1.2 What change do you see when you inspect the object? What happens in the picture?   8. Call a method or methods to move the circle object so that it lines up directly below the square.  Q1.3 What method(s) did you use? How many times? Could you have achieved this without the picture being visible?   9. Call the moveHorizontal method of square1. This method needs some additional information – how far you want to move. Enter a value of 100. Observe the effect by inspecting and on the picture.  10. Move the square 10 pixels down and 50 pixels to the left, with one method call for each.  Q1.4 What method(s) did you use? How did you specify the direction (up or down, left or right)?    11. Call the changeColor method of circle1 (note US spelling of color!). Enter the value “green” and observe the effect.    M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 4 Q1.5 What is the data type of the parameter for this method call? What happens if you enter green, without quotes? What happens if you enter a number, again without quotes?  Creating more objects  12. Create another circle object, named circle2, in the Object Bench, and make it visible in the picture.  Q1.6 How many Circle classes do you see in BlueJ? How many circle objects? How many circle objects do you think it would be possible to create?   13. Inspect the objects in the Object Bench. Look at the field names and field values.  Q1.7 What do the circle objects have in common? How do they differ? What makes a circle different from a square?   14. You can also create objects using code. Select the View>Show Code Pad option. The Code Pad area is displayed to the right of the Object Bench. Enter the following code in the Code Pad  new Triangle()  You should see the following. Drag the new triangle object to the Object Bench using the object symbol in the margin, and accept the instance name triangle1. Make the triangle object visible in the picture.    Q1.8 What key word in code is used when creating an object?  Task 2 : Working with interacting objects Getting started  1. Close the shapes project and open the project picture. You can find this project in the same examples folder inside the BlueJ application, or download from GCULearn. Compile the project if necessary.  This project contains the same shape classes as the previous one, but there is also an additional class Picture.  M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 5  Creating interacting objects  2. Create an instance of the class Picture with name picture1 in the Object Bench.   3. Call the draw method of picture1. You should see a very simple picture of  a house made up from simple shapes. These shapes are instances of the Circle, Square and Triangle classes you saw in Task 1.  Q2.1 How many objects, including the picture object are there? How many objects did you directly create? How do you think the other objects were created?   4. Inspect the picture object in the Object Bench. Its fields are all instances of one or other of the shape objects.    Q2.2 How would you describe the relationship between the picture object and the other objects?  Calling methods  5. With the Object Inspector for the picture object open, select the square object that represents the wall of the house and click the Inspect button. You should see another Object Inspector, for that object.  Q2.3 What colour is the wall (square) object?   6. Call the setBlackAndWhite method of the picture object. Inspect the picture object again, and from there inspect the wall object.   Q2.4 What field of that object has changed? What method does a square object provide to change its colour? What method did you call? How did the square’s method get called?    M1I322909: PROGRAMMING 1   page 6 Task 3 : Modifying source code In this final task you will try to make some changes to the Java code in the shapes project and observe the effect of the changes. You will learn much more about how to write code as you progress through the module, but you can try this task now if you are feeling adventurous.  1. Continue to work with the shapes project. Open the code editor for the Picture class (right-click on the class and select Open Editor). Look for the code that defines the colour of the sun in the picture. This code will be inside a block of code that defines a method called draw. Change the code so that the sun will be blue rather than yellow.  2. Compile the class by clicking the Compile button in the code editor, and test your change by creating a new picture object and calling its draw method, i.e. the method you have just modified. Note that every time you compile code, all existing objects are removed from the object bench and the picture window is closed.  3. Add a door to the house. This should be a square the same size and color as the window, and should be at the bottom of the wall, like this:    To do this you will need to add a new line:  private Square door;  immediately after the similar line which declares the window field, and then add code into the draw method to create and position the door. Test your change - it may take some trial and error to get the position right.  4. Add code at the end of the draw method to make the sun set. It should move slowly downwards until it disappears from the picture. Hint: use the method slowMoveVertical of Circle. Test your change by creating a picture and calling the draw method.  5. Separate out the code to make the sun set into a new method sunset so that it can be called at any time. Test your change by creating a picture and calling the draw method and then the sunset method. 

PROG1_lab1

Interview with Melanie and Prof Cam Donaldson : what have been most valuable mentoring learning experienc

Cartwright, Amy

Armstrong, Melanie

Mentoring in the research environment Q mentor learning

Bryce, Kimberly

Page 1 Last updated: 02 February 2017 Using the BrowZine App Logging into the app When you open the app for the first time you will be prompted to choose your library from an alphabetical list. Scroll down until you see Glasgow Caledonian University, or use the search bar, and select by tapping the name.  You will then be prompted to log in with your University Domain username and password.   You will then be directed to the BrowZine app homepage.   Page 2 Last updated: 02 February 2017 Browsing journal titles There are several ways you can browse our journal collections in BrowZine. You can use the Subjects tab to search different subject areas.   Alternatively you can use the search box to find your specific area of interest.  Once you select your area of interest you will be shown the associated journal titles. You can browse the different titles by dragging the icons from right to left.     Page 3 Last updated: 02 February 2017 You can also use the Title A-Z to browse all the titles in our collection or the search box if you are looking for a specific title.   Adding titles to My Bookshelf You can track journal titles you are interested in by adding them to My Bookshelf. You will receive notifications when new issues are added. To add a title to My Bookshelf, tap the yellow Add to My Bookshelf icon on the journal homepage.    Page 4 Last updated: 02 February 2017 You will then be taken to your bookshelf, where you can drag and drop the journal icon onto your shelves.  You can visit My Bookshelf at any time by using the menu at the bottom of the screen. Each user has four bookcases and you can customise these by adding different labels to the bookcases and shelves. Tap Edit at the top right hand side of the screen to edit the labels in the My Bookshelf area.  Page 5 Last updated: 02 February 2017 Using My Articles You can save any articles you are interested in to the My Articles section of BrowZine. To do this, tap on the grey folder icon next to the article title. This will then turn yellow and your chosen article will be saved.   You can access your saved articles by using the menu at the bottom of the screen. You can also customise any labels in this section by tapping Edit in the top right hand side of the screen.    Page 6 Last updated: 02 February 2017 Exporting citations to RefWorks You can export the citations of journal articles you read in BrowZine directly to your Refworks account. To do this, tap the Share icon in the top right hand corner of the screen. You will then see the RefWorks icon under the heading Bibliographic Management.    Tap the RefWorks icon and the citation will be automatically sent to your RefWorks account.  Please note: if you have not already signed into RefWorks on your device, you may have to complete the sign in process first and then export the citation to RefWorks again.   

Using the BrowZine app

In this module you will learn about a range of issues that are important to Computing professionals. These are issues that you need to be aware of in your future career. You will also need to consider, later in the module, which issues may apply to the topic which you choose for your project proposal. 

This week we will look at the following:





An Introduction to ‘Professional Issues



Social, ethical and legal issues



Ethics and Ethical theorie

Paterson, James

Research Skills and Professional Issues - Week 4

Hamilton, Colette

	Incident/Near Miss Form	Form S1eTo be completed in accordance with University Guidelines (Doc. Ref. H&S No1).  Complete all relevant parts & send to the H&S Dept* by post or by e-mail to hsforms@gcu.ac.uk Type of incident (please select the relevant box below)First Aid Injury		Incident No first aid required		Near Miss	RIDDOR (For further guidance, see Incident Reporting procedure)		Fatality	What happened? (include as much detail as possible such as people involved/witnesses, substances/machinery involved etc.)					Date of incident		Time of incident	Exact location of incident	Details of injured person (where applicable)Name of injured person		Date of birth	Home address and contact phone number			Job Title (if applicable)	Status e.g. employee, student,  contractor, visitor or other  (please specify as appropriate)	Gender e.g. male or female (please specify as appropriate)	Type of injury (e.g. laceration, fracture, loss of consciousness etc.)	Action Taken (e.g. first aid given, sent home, taken to hospital etc.)	Name of First Aider in attendance	Reporting Department Details (of the injured person)Department	Name of responsible person (i.e. Head of Department, lecturer, manager, chargehand etc.)	Designation	Action taken by the reporting Department What action has been taken to prevent a recurrence?					Name of Head of Department (or Deputy)	Signature		Date	*Please note, a copy should be retained by the Head of Department and the responsible person. Doc. Ref: H&S/Incident Form/Revision 1 (Refer to Form S1 revised 12/10/2010)                  Revision Date: Mar 2011

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