[Tutor] Conceptual Question About Use of Python for Employee Training Program

[Christopher King]

What's step 4?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Mac Ryan <quasipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Adam Carr <adamlcarr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning:
> >
> > I am very new to Python but I am enjoying the learning process. I
> > have a question about the application of Python to a problem at the
> > industrial business where I work. My two main questions are:
> >
> > 1. Can Python be used to achieve the goals of the possible project?
> > 2. Where are the best places to look (books, blogs, websites, etc.)
> > for programming examples or modules that would help me begin to
> > assemble and test some code?
> >
> > We currently have a Windows-PC based safety training program that was
> > put together in MS Access around 2001....
>
> <snip>
>
> > Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my long note. I
> > appreciate any help or direction that can be offered.
>
> Hi Adam,
>
>        from the way you describe your problem, to me the obvious
> answer would be "web application". This way you will be able to:
>
> 1. Make sure all employees will use the latest up-to-date training
>   material and software version.
>
> 2. Have a central DB able to track employees' activity (this opens up
>   the possibility for extra functionalities like sending a "gentle
>   reminder e-mail" to those who are not taking tests frequently
>   enough, statistics on what topics employees struggle most with,
>   etc...)
>
> 3. Be platform independent.
>
> 5. Save time on developing the GUI (which - done properly - is a very
>   time consuming part of desktop projects).
>
> That said, python is a great tool for web apps too. I personally looked
> a bit into Django (www.djangoproject.com), which is one of the python
> web frameworks and I was impressed by the speed you can prototype a
> fully working application.
>
> As for presenting the training material, for iteration #1 I would
> simply make them available as a download link. But in following
> iteration of the project I would also integrate them with the web (so
> as to make the entire application truly portable. I once used S5 for a
> project. Here you can see a presentation of it that is - coherentely -
> done with the standard presented:
> http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html#slide1
> However an alternative I did not experiment with is XOXO, which I read
> has python code examples available (see
> http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-sample-code-python)
>
> HTH,
> Mac.
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