[Discuss] learning python - formal training opportunities ?

[willrico at gmail.com (Will Rico)]

The Boston Python Meetup ( http://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/ ) has
over 3500 members and is very active.  It's a good community for
supplementing your learning and getting in-person support.  They run
occasional introductory workshops, which I hear are excellent and
include hands-on programming assignments.  Those workshops are for
women only, but you can attend if you are the guest of a woman who is
going.

Will

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Dennis Wynne <dmwynne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just started this course available free from MIT, maybe you've done
> this one already but if not it uses Python.  It's for people with virtually
> no programming experience but who want to learn such as myself who is
> looking to move from Windows Admin to Linux Admin / Programmer.
>
> http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
>> On 06/12/2013 01:18 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>
>>> Also, think of Python as a programming language not just a scripting
>>> language.
>>>
>>
>> Yes. Great for little one-off programs, but great for big systems, too.
>>  (An air traffic control system is listed in the success stories
>> http://www.python.org/about/**success/<http://www.python.org/about/success/>.)
>>
>> There are companies that consider Python to be one of their strategic
>> advantages and would love their competitors to stay on C++ (heck, and use
>> Windows servers, while they are at it).
>>
>> It has flaws (big run time, inelegant language definition), but it is a
>> marvelously powerful language.
>>
>> No, it won't do the tight pixel-munging inner loop as fast as can C, but
>> that is what libraries are for: run the tight inner loop in C!
>>
>> -kb
>>
>>
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