From marilyn at pythontrainer.com  Tue Jan  7 21:00:55 2014
From: marilyn at pythontrainer.com (Marilyn Davis)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:00:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [PyOP] New Years Python Classes: lots of choices
Message-ID: <57131.50.161.27.186.1389124855.squirrel@mail.tigertech.net>

Happy New Year!

Several new Python classes are starting for experienced programmers and
for novices to programming at UCSC-Extension Silicon Valley's labs in
Santa Clara, right across 101 from the Great America sign.

FOR NOVICES

Next Monday evening, Jan 13, we start a 6-Monday-evenings course for
novice programmers:

http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=3576274&SectionID=5274048

If you can't attend an evening course, we are holding a day course that
will be all day long, 3 Wednesdays: Jan 22, 29 & Feb 5:

http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=3576274&SectionID=5274049

Take the evening course if you can, it is better to learn more slowly and
have more practice time when you start a new discipline.

FOR EXPERIENCED PROGRAMMERS

If you have programming experience in any language skip the courses listed
above and join a Programmers' class.

The Programmers' course is low-pressure, but fast-paced, where students
learn and practice core concepts and Pythonic thinking.  To join any of
these Python classes, you should be well-practiced at programming in some
other language.

No beginning programmers please, but you can certainly be new to Python.

A 9-Thursday-evenings course starts Jan 23.

http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=1531625&SectionID=5274066

If you can't make the evening course, the other choice is 4 Wednesdays,
all day: Feb 12, 19, 26 and Mar 5:

http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=1531625&SectionID=5274067

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All our Python courses are hands-on with short lectures, and lots of
exercises where we study the solutions after some lab time.

Questions are always welcome; discussion and pair-programming are encouraged.

Please come, and send students!

ONLINE CLASSES:

If you would prefer an online class, you will enjoy:

http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=1531625&SectionID=5274065

The online site for this course will open to enrolled students on Jan 14,
but new enrollments will be accepted until Feb 18.

And, the first quarter of the professional course is available for $20 at
Udemy.Com!  I'm so busy that I can't say when the rest of the course will
be there, but I'm working on it.

https://www.udemy.com/pythonic-python-part-i-the-basics/

I hope you find one of these classes useful to your schedule and your taste.

Marilyn Davis

p.s.  If you know anyone in England who might be interested in a public
class there, please send them here:

http://developerfocus.com/kurskalenderoversikt.aspx?cat=1052&id=170382&kursid=181066