\section{IAP Courses} 

\subsection{What sort of IAP courses are there?}

SIPB sponsors a number of IAP courses each year with computing related
topics. Courses vary as people volunteer to teach them. In 1999, we
offered the following courses:

\begin{itemize}

% The commented lines are the 1998 IAP courses
% I've left them here in case someone wants to put them back
% in for any reasy
%\item Ada 95 for Programmers
%\item C\^n: Crash Courses in C
%\item Advanced Internet Topics
%\item Introduction to SGML 
%\item Introduction to UNIX Software Development
%\item Using Linux-Athena on MITnet
%\item Programming in PostScript
%\item Programming the 3Com PalmPilot

\item Athena: How it Works
\item Automating Software Portability With autoconf
\item Crash Course in C
\item Caffeinated Crash Course In C
\item Customizing GNU Emacs, With a Brief Introduction to Emacs Lisp
\item Advanced Internet Topics
\item Introduction to Java
\item Deep Magic with lex and yacc
\item Setting-up Your Personal NetBSD-Athena Workstation on MITnet
\item Introduction to Perl
\item Programming in PostScript
\item Practical Security Using Cryptography
\item UNIX Shell Scripting With the Bourne Shell
\item SQL and Relational Databases
\item Rapid GUIs Using tcl and the tk Toolkit
\item Introduction to UNIX Software Development
\item A Brief Introduction to XML

\end{itemize}

\subsection{How to start a SIPB sponsored IAP activity}

Since this procedure differs each year, you should mention that you want
to start a SIPB sponsored IAP activity at a SIPB meeting.