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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes

This item is adapted from an answer that I have just written by email - but the question / conundrum as to what to do with fractured advanced training requirements is a common one, so the answer is worth wider sharing. I believe that our solution provides an innovative way of meeting advanced requirements for tiny groups of 1 or 2, in a way that's cost effective for them, but which also makes commercial sense for us - not in terms of extra courses being profitable (which they are NOT) but in terms of customer care at a sensible expenditure of overheads

Fundamentals and some intermediate courses for most programming languages cover a pretty well defined set of topics that are common to the majority of delegates, but as things get more advanced they also get more specialised. For example, there are 4 different GUIs with Python (you could argue 5) and most people will only use one. Which is a bit of an issue with training - it doesn't make commercial sense for us to lay on a lot of advanced courses with few takers, so we use a different approach - our "Extra days". They work like this ...

Delegates who attend a regular course may also book for a day or two of extra training. Those extra days will be run at our Melksham, Wiltshire training centre on days to be agreed with the delegate(s) - typically on days that are otherwise hard to book such as a spare Monday or Friday in my diary before / after another 4 days course. And as they help fill up "off peak" days, we only charge the standard cost of a public one day course for each extra day - 350.00 for the first delegate, plus 250 for any further delegates in your group. But it IS private for your group.

Subjects taught - "you tell me". That sounds a little fluid, but about a half of our business is private courses for which we have a load of additional training material that doesn't appear in any public course and we've used a whole lot of things that we know but don't have notes on. With Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl it's almost a case of me saying "we can handle any advanced requirements". Where that expands (Python case) out to Zope, Plone, Django, etc I might be on slightly thinner ice - quite happy to cover and intro and how the language works with them, but I wouldn't offer or pretend to be able to give full courses on any of them.

There is no need for you to book extra days at the same time as you book your main course - indeed, it might well be that I cover some of the extras during the main course / can talk through things enough for you when I finish for the day - if it's just one extra module you need, there's little point in doing a whole extra day. So that's something that can - if you wish - be resolved later. But I'm equally happy if you turn round as say (for example) "I would like to cover the XXXX Gui, Web interfacing and Django and get some practical experience with displaying Database information on a web page through Python as an extra day" ahead of time.

There is general information about our extra days here (and an example for Perl here. General Python training information (as Python was used in the example above) is here
(written 2008-02-25, updated 2008-02-27)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Y212 - Python - Code testing, patterns, profiles and optimisation.
  [235] Preparation for a day's work - (2005-03-04)
  [1140] Python GTK - Widget, Packing, Event and Feedback example - (2007-04-09)
  [1146] __new__ v __init__ - python constructor alternatives? - (2007-04-14)
  [1148] Python decorators - wrapping a method call in extra code - (2007-04-15)
  [2123] Using Python with OpenOffice - (2009-04-09)
  [2616] Defining a static method - Java, Python and Ruby - (2010-02-01)
  [3441] Pressing ^C in a Python program. Also Progress Bar. - (2011-09-15)
  [3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together - (2011-09-16)
  [3464] Passing optional and named parameters to python methods - (2011-10-04)
  [3478] Testing your Python classes with the unittest package - how to - (2011-10-14)
  [3658] Using Make for a distribution - (2012-03-17)
  [4090] Test Driven Development in Python - Customer Comes First - (2013-05-16)
  [4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code - (2014-11-22)
  [4344] Python base and inherited classes, test harness and unit testing - new examples - (2014-12-07)
  [4446] Combining tests into suites, and suites into bigger suites - Python and unittest - (2015-03-01)
  [4470] Testing in Python 3 - unittest, doctest and __name__ == __main__ too. - (2015-04-21)
  [4538] Flask and unittest - hello web app test world - (2015-10-15)
  [4540] Unittest of a Flask application including forms - (2015-10-15)
  [4542] The principle of mocking - and the Python Mock package - (2015-10-17)
  [4617] Pytest - starting example - (2016-01-07)
  [4618] Pytest - second example beyond hello world - (2016-01-08)
  [4716] Profiling your Python program - (2016-11-01)

P711 - An Introduction to Standards in Perl
  [242] Satisfaction of training - (2005-03-11)
  [668] Python - block insets help with documentation - (2006-04-04)
  [743] How to debug a Perl program - (2006-06-04)
  [945] Code quality counts - (2006-11-26)
  [965] KISS - one action per statement please - Perl - (2006-12-05)
  [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
  [1221] Bathtubs and pecking birds - (2007-06-07)
  [1345] Perl and Shell coding standards / costs of an IT project - (2007-09-11)
  [1395] Dont just convert to Perl - re-engineer! - (2007-10-18)
  [1728] A short Perl example - (2008-07-30)
  [1853] Well structured coding in Perl - (2008-10-24)
  [1863] About dieing and exiting in Perl - (2008-11-01)
  [2375] Designing your data structures for a robust Perl application - (2009-08-25)
  [2688] Security considerations in programming - what do we teach? - (2010-03-22)
  [2875] A long day in Melksham ... - (2010-07-17)
  [3398] Perl - making best use of the flexibility, but also using good coding standards - (2011-08-19)

H201 - PHP and MySQL for Content Management
  [647] Checking for MySQL errors - (2006-03-15)
  [1576] Making PHP and MySQL training relevant to the course delegates - (2008-03-15)
  [1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails) - (2008-08-08)
  [2071] Setting up a MySQL database from PHP - (2009-03-08)
  [3453] Reading and using emails including enclosures on your web server. - (2011-09-23)

G999 - Well House Consultants - Keynote
  [164] Well House Consultants - review of 2004 - (2004-12-31)
  [225] 10 years and counting - (2005-02-23)
  [295] Pricing strategy - simple and fair - (2005-04-29)
  [360] Spring turns to Summer - (2005-06-26)
  [419] Most popular courses - (2005-08-19)
  [428] Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury train service - (2005-08-29)
  [452] Is enough enough? - (2005-09-27)
  [464] Technical Loneliness - (2005-10-14)
  [549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend - (2005-12-31)
  [626] Not just a pretty face to answer the phone. - (2006-02-26)
  [695] In the hospitality business - (2006-04-23)
  [774] Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel? - (2006-06-22)
  [845] Course scheduling and Geekmas - are they traditions yet? - (2006-08-26)
  [890] Open - (2006-10-09)
  [898] Courses at Well House Manor - (2006-10-19)
  [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17)
  [1079] Wilts and Berks - two conference / training rooms in Melksham - (2007-02-14)
  [1161] A contrast in room rates and facilities - (2007-04-25)
  [1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions - (2007-06-25)
  [1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more - (2007-08-23)
  [1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business - (2007-08-25)
  [1414] What we teach - expained for the non-technical - (2007-10-28)
  [1481] The Christmas Letter - (2007-12-22)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1615] PHP training courses every month - (2008-04-18)
  [1676] A warm welcome for visitors from the USA - (2008-06-14)
  [1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-08-11)
  [1773] The Longest Possible Day - (2008-08-26)
  [1857] November and December Public Course Schedule - (2008-10-27)
  [1859] Wiltshire at dawn - the tourist trail - (2008-10-29)
  [1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices - (2008-12-07)
  [1955] How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance - (2008-12-20)
  [1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests - (2009-01-03)
  [2144] Looking for a career change - Physician to Web Site Designer - (2009-04-28)
  [2216] Past Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break - (2009-06-03)
  [2228] Where do I start when writing a program? - (2009-06-11)
  [2326] Learn a new programming language this summer. - (2009-08-06)
  [2384] Looking ahead to the Autumn season of training and accommodation - (2009-08-28)
  [2483] Clustering on Tomcat - (2009-10-30)
  [2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ... - (2009-12-14)
  [3164] Brown - or Mrs Sally Brown, accountant from Whitstable? - (2011-02-10)
  [4588] What teach you in a week stays with you for a decade - (2015-11-29)

G400 - Well House Consultants - Private course
  [181] Maximum number of trainees on a course - (2005-01-18)
  [321] Sales - the alternative close - (2005-05-23)
  [387] Training course plans for 2006 - (2005-07-23)
  [994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-17)
  [1092] Tcl training - often for a larger group - (2007-02-24)
  [1968] Review of 2008 - (2008-12-31)
  [2802] After the Perl course in Nurnberg - (2010-06-11)
  [2881] Tailoring of courses to meet customers needs - how it works - (2010-07-21)
  [2928] Public (scheduled) or private course? Book direct, or through a third party? - (2010-08-19)
  [2953] Turning an exercise into the real thing with extreme programming - (2010-09-11)
  [2965] Testimonials - Well House Consultants Open Source courses - (2010-09-21)
  [3071] Well House Price list, January to March 2011 - (2010-11-25)
  [3074] Running a course ... what if the tutor isn't well? - (2010-11-29)
  [4082] Training around the world - easy payment in pounds Sterling - (2013-05-10)
  [4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015 - (2014-12-20)

G301 - Well House Consultants - Booking a Public Courses
  [487] On line course booking - credit card protection - (2005-11-06)
  [664] Ruby course - oops - it's not happening - (2006-04-01)
  [1193] Dangerous Dogs and Hotel Marketing - (2007-05-19)
  [1634] Kiss and Book - (2008-05-07)
  [1693] July to December 2008 - Open Source training schedule - (2008-07-01)
  [1932] Training Passports - booking a training program - (2008-12-09)
  [2278] First courses for 2010 - (2009-07-10)
  [2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season - (2009-08-12)
  [2743] Public Open Source Training Courses running this summer and autumn in Melksham - (2010-04-27)
  [3180] Age limits for Well House Consultants Open Source courses? - (2011-02-22)
  [3600] Visa, MasterCard and American Express - changing payment profiles - (2012-02-01)
  [4122] Well House - booking through agents - (2013-06-23)
  [4602] Training course and hotel room prices - 2016 - (2015-12-31)


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