Physics and Astronomy

News

• Courses at RAL
• Book offer
• Course material updates
• Traps and Pitfalls listing now available

Courses at RAL

I'm delighted to say that I will be teaching the Object-Oriented Techniques courses at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL) once again this year (2009/2010). (STFC PhD students and PDRAs on STFC grants)

Book offer

Having said for years that I would never do it, I have written a book on Analysis and Design (ISBN: 0-321-26317-0).

If you have attended one of my OOA&D courses during the last few years, the book represents an expanded version of what was covered there. If you attended a course many years ago, the book would represent an update as well.

So, should it be of interest to those who've attended the courses, I would like to make available a copy of the book at cost price. I have greatly enjoyed giving these courses to the physics and astronomy communities. Indeed, the comments and questions over the last 12 years have undoubtedly shaped the material.

To save the cost of postage, if you're visiting CERN we've arranged that the CERN IT bookshop has copies at a discount.

If you are not planning to visit CERN then I'm afraid we'll have to resort to posting the book. Please email me with your name and address, and the venue and year of the course you attended. I can then let you know the cost and the address (for cheques) or bank details (for bank transfers). I'm afraid that I'm not set up for credit cards, PayPal, etc. The cost is going to be 26 UKP (retail price 39.99 UKP) plus recorded delivery postage for 1200g (it's a fairly thick book -- the web page or Amazon give more information on the book's contents). If you're not based in the UK, then I guess we're stuck with bank transfer or international money order.

References and source code

I have updated the references and the sources for the Advanced C++ course. (If you were on the introductory C++ course more than eighteen months ago, then the sources for that might contain updates.)

C++ "Traps and Pitfalls" list

I have the 1st draft of the list of the traps and pitfalls from the Advanced C++ course. Apologies to those people to whom I promised this; it has taken far longer than I though it would. If you recall any favourites that I seem to have forgotten, do please email me if you can.

The list is over on my other site. I'm trying to drum up publicity for a book web site. I'm sure I would be wrong if I entertained the thought that the publisher could be following the well-known spaghetti-marketing tactic of the publishing business (throw it at the wall and see if it sticks.)