Bruno
Di Bari
Bruno Maria Di Bari, born in Naples on 22 March 1955, is a well-known computer programmer and website developer, as well as the author of several IT and computer graphics magazines.
He has delivered numerous IT courses for the Lazio Region, training workers on redundancy schemes, prisoners, employees in the agri-food sector, etc., and has also developed programmes for the Lazio Region to safeguard the cultivation of food products.
Passionate, with a degree and qualifications in Biology and Psychology, he has authored numerous books on psychosocial topics and historical narratives, which have also been reviewed in newspapers and featured on television programmes.
In the field of art, he has produced the encyclopaedic publication ‘Pixel Amiga – Corso di grafica al computer’ (Pixel Amiga – Computer Graphics Course), created the cartoon character ‘Smogolino – Il fumetto dei fumetti’ (Smogolino – The Cartoon of Cartoons), published a children’s magazine, and is also the creator of ‘Digital Art Painting’, having written a book on the subject and produced a number of interesting works using this technique.
He has served as a teacher and educational director for the 3F Italia Computer School in Lazio and Campania, has lectured on several computer science courses at the University of Economics and Business in Cassino, and currently lectures on ‘Fundamentals of Computer Science’ courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Publications
Encyclopaedic manual: <'PIXEL AMIGA' Computer Graphics Course>
Book: <'DIGITAL ART PAINTING': Photography – Digital Processing – Painting>
Comic strip magazine: ‘Smogolino’
Various publishing products in the IT sector for Jackson Libri and Di Erre Editoria Futura.
– In other fields:
Scientific articles in the daily newspaper Latina Editoriale Oggi
Scientific publication: ‘X-chromosome activation and inactivation and the role of methylation in triggering this process’
Scientific publication: ‘PRIONS’
Various books on psychosocial topics.
Part I (for all students)
Introduction to the concepts of hardware, software, operating systems and applications.
The graphical user interface of the operating system (Mac and Windows)
Files, folders and shortcuts (aliases)
Tree navigation
Introduction to different file formats
Viruses and antivirus software, spam and anti-spam software: instructions for use
Installing and uninstalling a program
Troubleshooting the most common computer usage issues: application instability, software updates, hardware conflicts
Using the internet and web browsers – Using search engines – HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ASP languages
Using email programmes (setting up and configuring accounts, filters, message rules, etc.)
Images: overview of image formats and their properties
Using Photoshop (basics, photo editing, clipping, applying filters) – Practical exercise
Using MS PowerPoint and basics of multimedia presentations – Practical exercise
Use of MS Excel and basic spreadsheet skills
Part II (for 100-hour courses)
Introduction to visual programming
Use of Illustrator (basics, drawing tools, objects, text, layers palette, pen, etc.) – Practical exercise
Use of MS Word and basic word processing skills
Use of the essential functions of MS Access and basic knowledge of data storage
Bibliography
Fondamenti di informatica – Riccardo Botteri – CESD
Adobe Photoshop. Guida pratica (Adobe Photoshop. A Practical Guide) – Matteo Discardi – Mondadori
Adobe Illustrator CS5. Practical Guide. I portatili – Matteo Discardi – Mondadori