[TriPython] Fwd: Python training for development staff

Mon May 1 08:01:01 EDT 2017

Hello Ken,
You may want to check this out. 
https://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Durham/events/239131054/

I don’t have any personal experience with this company, just came across it on the meetup website. 
Looks like “The Iron Yard” is a professional training company. So it fits what you are looking for. I did not find specific course details for Python on their website. 

Hope this helps. 

Best Regards,
Hitesh. 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Leslie Sox
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:03 PM
To: Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG)
Subject: Re: [TriPython] Fwd: Python training for development staff

NC State has CSC 111 - Intro to Computing: Python most likely a 16 week
course. I just searched the course catalog. You can take classes without
registering for a degree through DELTA, distance and lifelong learning.

I learned Python through the graduate course GIS 540: Geospatial
Programming Fundamentals. The course is designed for ArcPy functions in
ESRI ArcGIS. I later used Python to automate 3D point cloud conversions in
GRASS GIS in another course. I know it's not the right answer you were
looking for.

My suggestion would to buy a book that has example projects. My friend who
is a research scientist has an earlier version of this book from O'reilly,
Learning Python, 5th Edition.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do

Myself, I prefer books other than O'reilly that have projects and code
samples that you can follow along with that build as you go through the
chapters.

What type of software applications is your team developing? General
software inquiries really bug me. People never want to disclose what the
product they are working on is. It could be anything from working on a car,
to a satellite or Wall Street stock trading application.

Regards,

Leslie John Sox
Computer Science and Engineering
Raleigh, NC
(919) 931-5644
leslie.sox at gmail.com

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

>    ====resending from the right address for this list====
>
>    So I work for an organization that for the most part majority of the
>    developers have spent the past year working only in a proprietary form
>    of basic from the vendor of our main tool set.
>
>    So in comes a new VP and he is wanting to get people up to speed
>    technology the industry actually uses. And this in conjunction with the
>    future of the vendor we use being very much in the air most likely her
>    asked me the question about training more of the developers, a class or
>    where to send them for example to learn python.
>
>    I really don't know what to say as I basically taught myself python
>    years ago and use it in hobbyist fashion.** However now I am working on
> a
>    bunch of new pieces for the office in python.** Data conversion
> utilities
>    and some REST microservices for enhancing business user data access into
>    PowerBI or some angular 2 front ends.
>
>    Anyway long story short, can anyone recommend a good local to Raleigh
>    python training class to send a group of developers.** Or a trainer who
>    would come in to train the group on site.
>
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   Hello Ken,

   You may want to check this out.

   [1]https://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Durham/events/239131054/

   I don't have any personal experience with this company, just came across
   it on the meetup website.

   Looks like "The Iron Yard" is a professional training company. So it fits
   what you are looking for. I did not find specific course details for
   Python on their website.

   Hope this helps.

   Best Regards,

   Hitesh.

   Sent from [2]Mail for Windows 10

   From: [3]Leslie Sox
   Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:03 PM
   To: [4]Triangle (North Carolina) Python Users Group (formerly TriZPUG)
   Subject: Re: [TriPython] Fwd: Python training for development staff

   NC State has CSC 111 - Intro to Computing: Python most likely a 16 week

   course. I just searched the course catalog. You can take classes without

   registering for a degree through DELTA, distance and lifelong learning.

   I learned Python through the graduate course GIS 540: Geospatial

   Programming Fundamentals. The course is designed for ArcPy functions in

   ESRI ArcGIS. I later used Python to automate 3D point cloud conversions in

   GRASS GIS in another course. I know it's not the right answer you were

   looking for.

   My suggestion would to buy a book that has example projects. My friend who

   is a research scientist has an earlier version of this book from O'reilly,

   Learning Python, 5th Edition.

   http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do

   Myself, I prefer books other than O'reilly that have projects and code

   samples that you can follow along with that build as you go through the

   chapters.

   What type of software applications is your team developing? General

   software inquiries really bug me. People never want to disclose what the

   product they are working on is. It could be anything from working on a
   car,

   to a satellite or Wall Street stock trading application.

   Regards,

   Leslie John Sox

   Computer Science and Engineering

   Raleigh, NC

   (919) 931-5644

   leslie.sox at gmail.com

   On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

   >    ====resending from the right address for this list====

   >

   >    So I work for an organization that for the most part majority of the

   >    developers have spent the past year working only in a proprietary
   form

   >    of basic from the vendor of our main tool set.

   >

   >    So in comes a new VP and he is wanting to get people up to speed

   >    technology the industry actually uses. And this in conjunction with
   the

   >    future of the vendor we use being very much in the air most likely
   her

   >    asked me the question about training more of the developers, a class
   or

   >    where to send them for example to learn python.

   >

   >    I really don't know what to say as I basically taught myself python

   >    years ago and use it in hobbyist fashion.** However now I am working
   on

   > a

   >    bunch of new pieces for the office in python.** Data conversion

   > utilities

   >    and some REST microservices for enhancing business user data access
   into

   >    PowerBI or some angular 2 front ends.

   >

   >    Anyway long story short, can anyone recommend a good local to Raleigh

   >    python training class to send a group of developers.** Or a trainer
   who

   >    would come in to train the group on site.

   >

   > _______________________________________________

   > TriZPUG mailing list

   > TriZPUG at python.org

   > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug

   > http://tripython.org is the Triangle Python Users Group

   >

   >

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