Python Training Services Training options for individuals

As of October 2010, all classes are delivered in on-site private mode, at a hosting company or organization. I no longer offer public classes open to individual enrollments.  If you are an individual looking for Python training, I suggest exploring the following options.

On-site classes

If you can round up a few other interested people at your organization, a private on-site session might work for you.  I've been known to offer discounts to very small groups, especially when my class calendar is relatively sparse.  On-site costs compare well for even small groups when student travel and time away are factored in, and it never hurts to ask what your on-site options may be.

Python books

The text Learning Python 4th Edition directly parallels the core language portions of the classes I teach, and the majority of a typical 3-day session.  Since this text also includes the same exercises with solutions, it can be used as a self-paced substitute for a live class, and this is one of its explicit goals.  Of course, books don't offer the same interaction and feedback as live classes, but books can be studied at whatever pace you wish, and provide more in-depth coverage than any 3-day training session possibly can.  Really, the book is more like a semester long class, and the 3-day session is an abbreviated version aimed at providing a quick-start introduction.  Because the class is a subset of the book, you may find working through the book to be a more complete learning experience.  Moreover, the follow-up text Programming Python 4th Edition parallels the application-level topics usually introduced in overview fashion on the last day of the live classes, though again the book covers these topics in much more depth and detail.

Other providers

If you cannot get a group together and self-paced study of books isn't an option for you, I suggest a web search to see what other training providers might offer.  Make sure you look into such classes carefully, of course; the number of training options tends to increase with a subject's popularity, but this doesn't necessarily guarantee instruction quality (and often implies the opposite).  To put that more strongly, the more a class promises to teach you in 3 days, the less likely it is to succeed.  Some other options are no doubt very good, but I advise caution when looking for training in any increasingly popular domain, including Python.  I don't make recommendations about specific other options, because I don't have any first-hand data to relay. 

As a basis of comparison, if you want to see what my public classes were like when they were last offered, here's the 2010 public classes web page.  Though no longer relevant, you can also view some of my older public class pages while they last, from 2009 (Florida), 2008 and earlier (Colorado), and 2006 (Estes Park seminar).

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