<div dir="ltr">Hi Paul,<div><br></div><div>I've been told that I'm good at explaining things by the two people I've had working for me. I'm not the most experienced programmer in this group by far, but in terms of getting you off the ground with python, advanced OOP, and good coding practices (and making you understand WHY good practices are considered good, which I think is crucial) I'm happy to put myself forward. I also spend a lot of time thinking about how best to teach programming (do all programmers do this?)</div><div>One thing I'll definitely lack compared to others is experience in large-scale team programming, agile, scrum etc... Almost all the projects I undertake are or could be one-man projects, which I have drafted help on from others when I had too many projects on my hands. The workflow, tooling and how you go about being agile on small projects is considerably different to much of what you'll read about agile in books and blogs which tends to be targeted at big team projects. A lot of the practices simply aren't applicable on small projects, or ones where you are simultaneously the dev, the client, the QA and the stakeholder. On the flip-side it's too easy to skip inculding a good practice in your workflow because it seems like too much hassle for the size of project. If it's those kind projects you're going for, then I'm perhaps better placed to guide you in the right direction.</div><div>Note that python isn't going to get you very far on mobile apps (except for the backend) that's mostly javascript & HTML land, and you'll be using an entirely different toolset to get ahead of the game (e.g. Node is crucial for JS these days, and something like PhoneGap or Titanium can really make a difference for mobile dev). But a good basis in general programming will definitely help, and python is as good a language as you can get to get your feet off the ground.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're interested, PM me so we can meet up and figure out a rate of sorts.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edinburgh-request@python.org" target="_blank">edinburgh-request@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Edinburgh mailing list submissions to<br>
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Sorry I have not beenable to attend any of the events so far this year, my job takes me away fromhome quite a bit. This is not likely to change in the coming months but I amstill keen to start climbing the steep learning curve whenever I am at home inEdinburgh. For this reason I am looking for a private tutor to teach me theropes, to learn through doing. I would like 2 or 3 hours per week whenever I amhere, which at the moment is about 2 weeks each month. Not sure what the goingrate is but I?m happy to pay a premium for a real guru.<br>
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My background is inParticle Physics and Economics and I currently work for WHO and UNICEF inimmunization supply chain design and data analysis. I wish to develop web andmobile apps for my line of work, but I also hope one day to start developingsimple economics educational apps/games.<br>
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