We had a 4 hands-on training course in Python, delivered for 12 (or so) PhD students at Southampton University from Jacek Generowicz who was great. He has some of his materials/offerings on http://jacek.web.cern.ch/jacek/courses
Best wishes, Hans On 14 Jul 2014, at 23:25, Nicholas H.Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My first experience with Python was a course run by some bearded bloke > called "PINNER" (or something like that) at PyconUK. He was great. I'd > hire him if you can track him down. ;-) > > (The reason John was so great was because he was quite willing to > throw the "materials" out the window and answer dumb-ass questions > from numpty's like me.) > > I'd also send as many people to PyconUK too - you can book here: > http://pyconuk.org/ :-) > > It's a serious point about PyconUK - being around Pythonistas is a > great way to learn in an informal and relaxed situation, find out > where to get help and who to ask online as well as get the skinny on > tools, libraries and other stuff that experienced developers use. It's > also a learner directed educational situation which, in my experience > as a teacher, is preferable to a brain-dump chalk-and-talk type affair > where you start at exercise one and just keep going until the end. > > To be honest, having experienced several taught courses for several > different languages with trainers of vastly different levels of > educational awareness and aptitude I have my doubts about the efficacy > of such things for getting developers up to speed. Although I realise > "send him where Pythonistas congregate" is probably not management > friendly advice your guy sounds like he'd flourish if prodded in the > right direction rather than sat in a classroom and given exercises and > whatnot to do. > > Hope this helps, > > N. > > On 14/07/14 20:19, Tony Ibbs wrote: >> A colleague at work has asked me if I know of any good Python >> training courses. >> >> He's got some C++ and Python experience (he knows about classes >> and inheritance, seems to be competent with dictionaries, I'd say >> he's beyond beginner in Python, although I'm not sure if he'd >> agree), and has potential approval from his boss to go on a >> training course if he can find one. >> >> We're based in Cambridge, so London is also a sensible option. >> >> We had a quick look at the python.org wiki page on training (it >> has Russell Winder and Michael Foord listed - I thought Michael was >> doing something else now?). Enthought clearly have a local office, >> but their offerings are all scientific Python oriented, which >> isn't really appropriate. I don't know anything about any of the >> other companies listed there as offering training. >> >> I *think* an existing course would be more useful than something >> done in-house specifically for us, since I don't know if there'd be >> more than one person interested (mind, I haven't asked yet). >> >> So, any suggestions/recommendations would be gratefully received, >> on or off list. >> >> Tibs _______________________________________________ python-uk >> mailing list python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTxFjtAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6m3UIAJDOlpekeIIv0lJQEiUCyhDX > xzMuZsI74gwN2MpbHmr1ZYt5WILba2fs9p/Sz0xb3QvTMELP3OTZlTBfc68e7FpU > AR3YlPidEu9mONgE6C2NG/wsBk51rWRFu9ha+OF575Mp1J+suDFPMqpZmfwgegGy > pIhiT2O6ECj2T+RiDI0T6gnLMulCgKkMbqaTkY/jLLnngU/DP/xsPhiwTCf7xvwN > vDKqGhkA0hSRqSen52CCQ3jMTRFBZx76gDq11RtlXXGQmjkzXm3YanOC1Yj5PtRt > wcEyhDNv/OQNsnI9j06UIKEbr3BkdwhVOE9DbB/RDSweNBjnOlv+OXG1r9SVOT8= > =MKNo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
