From marilyn at pythontrainer.com Wed Mar 13 20:41:57 2013 From: marilyn at pythontrainer.com (Marilyn Davis) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PyOP] PYCON special Message-ID: <49755.24.4.35.121.1363203717.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net> Hi, https://www.udemy.com/pythonic-python-part-i-the-basics/ has just been released. You can get 25% off during PYCON by using the coupon code: PYCON I do hope you find it useful. Marilyn Davis From marilyn at pythontrainer.com Tue Mar 26 02:20:34 2013 From: marilyn at pythontrainer.com (Marilyn Davis) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PyOP] Beginners' daytime class Wednesday Message-ID: <55733.24.4.35.121.1364260834.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net> Hi, Starting this Wednesday, March 27, we are holding a beginners' Python class for 3 Wednesdays, 9-4, at our lab at UCSC-Extension, 2505 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, right across 101 from the Great America sign. This unusual class is for beginners who have not programmed before. If you know how to program in any language, it is not for you. We will study and practice a few programming techniques that are common to all computer languages, but we will do them the Python way. The idea of the class is to give beginners an opportunity to experience the programmers' craft, but to spend the least possible time and money to learn if programming is an activity they enjoy. Also, if programming does resonate with the student, then the student is in a good position to take the programmers' class at a later date. All the UCSC-Extension Python courses are hands-on. After each short lecture, students are given lab time and exercises that provide practice with the new concepts. Next, a new material set is distributed which contains solutions to the lab exercises and notes for the next short lecture, and the next set of lab exercises. Questions are always welcome; discussion and pair-programming are encouraged. http:www.pythontrainer.com Please come, and send students! Marilyn Davis, Ph.D. Python Instructor