[Baypiggies] Python Programming Class at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills

[Paul Marxhausen]

Please note that Foothill College in Los Altos Hills is offering in the Winter 2006 session (starting
in January) the following Python Course:
 
Department: Computer Information Systems
CIS 68K INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON PROGRAMMING (Lecture)
  Units: 5 
  Hours: Four hours lecture, four hours terminal time. 
  Call Number: 2354 
  Schedule ID: CIS -068K-01 
  Location:  4202   View Campus Map 
  Time: 9:00AM-12:40 
  Days: Saturday    
  Instructor: GEVER 
  Advisory: CIS015A or CIS027A, and CIS068A. 
  
Course Description: 
This course will introduce students to the Python language and environment. Python is a portable, interpreted, object-oriented programming language that is often compared to Perl, Java, Scheme and Tcl. The language has an elegant syntax, dynamic typing, and a small number of powerful, high-level data types. It also has modules, classes, and exceptions. The modules provide interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems(X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Such extension modules can define new functions and variables as well as new object types. 
 
See www.foothill.edu for further details.
 
Cheers,
 
Paul Marxhausen
 
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company