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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
Extreme training

Extreme programming methodology is becoming quite popular - we've got a user of the techniques with us on a course at present - and there's quite a bit to be said for many of the techniques involved.

Set a series of short studies / cases up and work through each with testing and frequent re-integration along the way. Modify the design frequently and early in the light of experiences gained while coding. Work in a team (of two) so that more than one person understands and that you have the power of two trains of thought together (yes, this does mean two people huddled over the same screen). Use "spike solutions" from time to time, where you look ways ahead and try out coding ideas to see if your development ideas will work, before coming back to implement the same scheme in a more thorough and robust manner.

We were musing over a coffee yesterday that many aspects of our training techniques are similar to extreme programming - so perhaps we should entitle it Extreme training. Concepts and subjects are covered interactively here - with new sample programs written from scratch on a projected screen, and with inputs and questions from the whole little group (it's a group of 4 on this week's public course where at the time of the discussion we were covering inheritance and more advanced object handling in Perl. Spike examples are generated from time to time, where a class member asks a question and we head off to explore a subject in more depth. And then we refactor towards the end of the session. The net result is a set of clean and clear samples, written with the trainee's help and clear understanding, which they can use further in their own work down the road.

It really works. I'm chuffed to see how our training is encouraging trainees not only in the mechanisms of the languages, but also in the direction of using the language well in an easy to develop and maintain and robust manner. Whether it's the framework for a generic base class in Perl (view here), or for a web based application in Python (view here) ... it really works.
(written 2005-03-16, updated 2006-06-05)

 
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