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Technical Curriculum
Course# Description Length BA.100 BASICS - Dictionaries, Access
Technical Managers, developers, programmers and advanced users. Data Dictionaries - A and S types, Correlatives Access (or Retreive) statements and how they work. BUILD - Access statement builder operation applicable to all extended relational/Pick/U2 environments 1 day
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BA.102 BASICS - FILE and dictionary management
File management - Creating files, modulo, sizing, naming conventions Btree indexing, Dictionary development, index keys, binding, building indices Co-ordinated multi-value sets - controlling and dependent fields 1 day
TechnicalBA.110 BASICS - BASIC programming
Programming concepts - PROGRAM, SUBROUTINE OPEN, READ, WRITE, SUBROUTINES, CALLS, EXECUTES CASE statements, IF THEN constructs, ICONV, OCONV Use of COMMON statements and INCLUDES Dynamic vs Dimensioned arrays, efficient programming techniques Naming conventions, standards, policy and procedures 2 day
TechnicalBA.120 Nucleus Technology - Management Briefing For Developers and Managers who wish to evaluate Nucleus Technology. Screen and Menu Navigation, Fundamentals of Screen Development. Review of security, Introduction to Nucleus concepts and capabilities Evaluation Copy of Nucleus is provided. ½ day
introduction Non
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NC.201 Introduction to Nucleus Technology
Screen development and design Multi-value sets (grids), btrees, validations, menu building Pop-up selections, choice lists, help authoring, prompting, Validations, error messages, protect, no-change, display, require, save.require, password, check-box, id-supp, heading-supp, footing-supp, changemsg-supp, frame, graphic line, tabgroup, field color, page, heading, window and other screen properties are covered You will be able to develop working screens or 'rule-sets' after this introduction. Nucleus evaluation copy and course materials are included. 1 DAY
Technical SHORT
COURSENC.210 BASICS - Event Driven BASIC programming
Programming concepts Naming conventions for file, dictionary and variables. Reserved words and reserved characters Object Property management in the Nucleus environment Hide, show, secure, hidepage, showpage, buttons, Choice list, selection using btree Covers COMPILE, LOAD, CORR, PREFIELD, ICONV, OCONV, VALID, PREWRITE, POSTWRITE, POSTDELETE, SPECIAL, POSTFIELD, READSUB, CHOICE, GENID, FIELDDELETE,,TIMEOUT,CROSSPAGE, UNLOAD, PREDELETE WRAP and COMMANDMENU events. 2 day Technical NC.230 Nucleus Essentials
Targeted for Programmers and Software Developrs Screen and Menu Development. Covers all aspects of NC.201 Fundamentals of Screen Development and the Report Writer Drill-downs, debugging, segmented id, passing parameters Validations, Help Authoring, On-The-Fly prototyping methods Batch Processing and PARAGRAPHS, "hot-buttons" and defaults The Generalized Subroutine and Nucleus events, System Security Introduction to Source Code Control and use of the Nucleus editor (NuEdit), Tips and Techniques for screen design. Questions and Answer session. Review development of an order-entry screen including hide- page/show.page, hide.field/show.field, PROPERTIES and definition. 3 day NC.301 NuControl - Change management and Version Control
Source management theory, Account and project setup. Developer administration, Placing objects (items) under source management.
Check-in, Check out, Release and Rollback administration, "Stealing".
Build management - Full and interim builds (release sets). Distribution from development to QC, promoting QC to production - source or object discussion. Library management, Source comparison, Object code distribution methodology. Managing multiple projects, toe-tagging tools and environmental forensics. Review of the NuControl function library and the expanding pre-compiler. Access controls, Configuration management, Automatic notification, BEAR: Bug, Enhancement, Advisory and Resolution admin. Selecting an editor - by group or user. Using NuEdit, Dictionary management. Change auditing. FILEMAINT3 day
in depth technical course for programmers, Database Administrators and IT Managers.
NC.401 Nucleus Developers & Value Added Reseller’s (VAR) course
Pre-requisite is the Nucleus NC230 course & Nucleus experience Developing for platform Independence & application distribution Distribution of screens & routines to distributed sites Advanced Programming using the Generalized Subroutine Function library and "client" or "site" functions and their use Subroutine development conventions Converting Legacy applications to the Nucleus environment Field defaults, validations, A, F and I type correlatives Source Code Control topics, check-in/check-out, release 3 day
TechnicalNC.450 Advanced Nucleus Btree Usage: Tips, Tricks & Search methods Intersected searches, Multi-word keys, Jump – Search & Return Advanced storage and retrieval, large file system management 2 day Technical NC.501 Advanced developers workshop.
Prerequisite: 3 months experience using Nucleus Prerequisite: Specs for an application you wish to create or enhance3 day
TechnicalNC.502 Database BASICS - System Administration Universe Internals Comprehensive coverage of Universe system administration. Account setup, user administration, file creation and file types, file resizing, rotating file pool, MFILES, FNUXI, btree Indexing. Universe internals. Assumes understanding of the editor and Retrieve. Specific to Universe 3 day
TechnicalNC.601 Graphic User Interface: – GUI screens & design theory. Converting character based screens to GUI. Covers standard GUI conventions, MIDI forms, tab-group, font, size, page, help, using the GUI designer, grid forms, buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, selections, etc. 1 day
TechnicalNC.610 Nucleus StarSite workshop. Web-site and catalog development The objective of this workshop is to create an operational interactive website using Nucleus rule-sets defined within the StarSite environment. Project Based
TechnicalNC.901 Migration to Nucleus from System Builder
Operation of the SB2 utilities, processing options, debugging. Prerequisite is an expert understanding of Nucleus.
SB knowledge is assumed.Project Based
5 day minimum
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Availability
All the above courses can be provided "on-site" at your location on a per-diem basis. Some classes are available on a one-to-one basis over the web. Please contact the Binary Star office for details.
Multiple enrollment discounts are available.
