[Tutor] Taking Mark Lutz's training course

[Wesley Chun]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Daniel Yoo wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 kromag@nsacom.net wrote:
> > Daniel Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> said:
> >
> > And now for something completely different:
> >
> > Have you taken, or talked to anyone who has taken Mark Lutz' Python
> > classes?  It sounds like a good three days, but the money gods have
> > frowned upon me this year. I _really_ get a lot of mileage out of
> > "Learning Python", so I am inclined toward spending my dough with him.
>
> No, I haven't taken one of his classes.  Has anyone here taken one?  What
> are they like?

I don't know anyone who has either, but he *is* rather busy
doing it!  In fact, he told me a few days ago that he would
have to start passing business to *me* if July has the same
torrid training pace as June!  :-)


> > I have yet to find a college in the midwest that even teaches Python.
> > *sigh*
>
> I actually tried to do a small "Introduction to Python" session in
> Berkeley once.  What a disaster!  The problem was that the language was so
> obvious, so simple, that I didn't need to say anything... *grin*

I teach the Python course for the University of California,
Santa Cruz extension system -- rather than teaching for students
on-campus, these are once-a-week evening courses for working
professionals.  I believe UC Berkeley is offering a similar
course.

Teaching the actual language, as Daniel pointed out, is rather
straightforward.  The rest of the time, I'm overworking them
with exercises, then doing more advanced topics (i.e., network-
ing, regular expressions, GUIs and Tkinter, web programming, etc.)
towards the end of the 8-week course.  By the time they're done,
not only do they know Python, but are good programmers as well! ;-)

-wesley

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