Tutorials at IPC9

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In article <39591877.535A96BC at sage.att.com>,
Garry Hodgson  <garry at sage.att.com> wrote:
>
>I'm not looking for specific topics per se (although I'm open to
>suggestions), but rather what kind of classes would be useful.  To get
>things going, here are some thoughts I had on what might be good:
>
>More in-depth tutorials, perhaps something that might build a complete
>application in Tkinter or Zope, giving a sense of real implementation
>issues.  Perhaps even a two part class: half lecture and half
>instructor-led implementation of some significant, but manageable,
>project.
>
>Overview courses, to compare and contrast various alternatives for a
>given task.  Like, say, a course that would show how to use Tkinter,
>wxPython, PyQt, and PyGTK to solve user interface problems.  This could
>be either a survey of features, or a comparison of apps built in each.
>I'd prefer the latter; what do you think?

I think it's pretty hard to get a general read on what people prefer in
terms of style.  So much depends on the individual person taking the
class, as well as the instructor.  Most of the really good ideas require
having machines available -- do you know at this point that you'll have
the resources for that?

In general, what bothers me about most classes is that they're too dang
slow -- the instructor is too willing to bog the class down for the
benefit of the slowest person in the class.  When I do presentations,
people are often surprised at how much material I cover in a short
period of time, but I rarely get complaints, because I usually cover the
material multiple times in slightly different ways, each time going a
little deeper into the details.
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