: Nick Efford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand
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Interesting to see discussion on supply and demand issues for
Python programmers. You
Interesting to see discussion on supply and demand issues for
Python programmers. You might be interested to learn that,
after a few years of flirting with Python in various ways, the
School of Computing at the University of Leeds has recently
switched to teaching Python as the first and primary
2007/10/24, Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
using C++ and Java (and often C), but as far as I know there is no
Stanford course (at least not within Symbolic Systems) that focuses
specifically and exclusively on Python (there IS one course,
In my constant try-to-push-Python-everywhere-I-go, I
Interesting to see discussion on supply and demand issues for
Python programmers. You might be interested to learn that,
after a few years of flirting with Python in various ways, the
School of Computing at the University of Leeds has recently
switched to teaching Python as the first and
Just to chime in from the other side of the coin.
I'm actively trying to hire qualified scientific programmers with strong
Python experience. Unfortunately, I've had little success finding
candidates with actual Python knowledge, resorting mainly to hiring those
who've seen it and can readily
I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
courses based on Python, among them:
Georgia Tech
CMU
Bryn Mawr
Some of them are using:
Introduction-Computing-Programming-Multimedia-Approach
So, it's
On Oct 25, 2007 7:59 AM, Anna Ravenscroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
courses based on Python, among them:
Georgia Tech
CMU
Bryn Mawr
Some of them are
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
- I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that
- several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1)
- courses based on Python, among them:
- Georgia Tech
- CMU
- Bryn Mawr
It's been
On 10/12/07, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
(and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
:-). This is good news because it suggests Python is on the uptake
(always good to know). At the
2007/10/24, Nicholas Bastin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 10/12/07, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
(and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
:-). This is good news because it suggests Python
On 10/12/07, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem may be related to the fact that Python is rarely teached at
school or university. I know no school or university in Germany that is
teaching Python.
I teach Python to the first semester, at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut
in
Nick At least from my perspective, all the jobs are in web
Nick applications, and all the Python developers I know are traditional
Nick applications programmers, not web developers.
I find almost the opposite to be true. Most resumes I see with Python
experience are quite
Application programmers... Web programmers...
I can't resist chiming in that I'm running a 4000-line Python
application on my iPhone that is both a full-blown application, and a
Web server, because it uses the phone's browser as its application
GUI. (By the way, thanks to whoever pushed through
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org writes:
I wonder if we should start maintaining a list of Python developers
for hire somewhere on python.org, beyond the existing Jobs page. Is
anyone interested in organizing this?
I would be definitely interested in putting my name on such a list.
On 10/16/07, Wolfgang Langner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if we should start maintaining a list of Python developers
for hire somewhere on python.org, beyond the existing Jobs page. Is
anyone interested in
I wonder if we should start maintaining a list of Python developers
for hire somewhere on python.org, beyond the existing Jobs page. Is
anyone interested in organizing this?
What about something a little less formal - a mailing list such as
python-jobs?
--
Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer,
I wonder if we should start maintaining a list of Python developers
for hire somewhere on python.org, beyond the existing Jobs page. Is
anyone interested in organizing this?
Andrew What about something a little less formal - a mailing list such
Andrew as python-jobs?
How
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
(and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
:-) . This is good news because it suggests Python is on the uptake
(always good to know). At the same time it is disturbing
I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
(and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
:-). This is good news because it suggests Python is on the uptake
(always good to know). At the same time it is disturbing because
apparently there aren't
On 10/12/07, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
(and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
:-). This is good news because it suggests Python is on the uptake
(always good to know).
Yeah, I
The problem may be related to the fact that Python is rarely teached at
school or university. I know no school or university in Germany that is
teaching Python.
I teach Python to the first semester, at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut
in Potsdam, for the third year now.
Regards,
Martin
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