It feels like Tuesday - so I almost put out the bins before I left home for the fortnightly rubbish collection. But it isn't Tuesday - it's only Monday morning, and only just 8 O'Clock

It was something of an experiment when we added an optional day onto the front of our programming courses, when we noticed a trend for a small proportion of our delegates to be completely new to programming, whereas in the past they have been much more "convertors" who learned to program at college - perhaps in a language such as pascal. And we added the day, sometimes, on a Sunday so that we didn't need to reschedule the regular course, advised by a couple of potential candidates that they would be very happy to attend on a Sunday and give up their weekend, since their employer was retraining them for a new future role and paying for the course, and they should give some of their time too ...

The experiment has been the most amazing success. And we had four out of five of our hotel rooms taken on Saturday night by delegates attending Learning to Program in Python starting yesterday. The remaining room was taken last night by a further delegate attending Python Programmin which starts in an hour, and there are three other delegates too for that course who are taking the non-residential option.

Have a look at our late 2009 and all of 2010 training schedule if you're looking to learn to program ("never done it before / don't know where to start" or "goodness - not done any programming for 20 years and that was in assembler on a PDP/11") in Java, Perl, C, C++, Tcl, Lua, PHP, Ruby ... or Python. In each case, we cover basis principles on that extra first day. But in each case, all of the examples I use will be in your target language - there's no longer the need to learn the principles in Basic or Pascal, then switch to a different target language for your job role.


Illustration - our "Wilts" training room, at 08:30 on Sunday morning - ready for delegates who were at breakfast at the time!
(written 2009-11-16)

 Q100 - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Learning to Progam
  [3551] Some terms used in programming (Biased towards Python) - (2011-12-12)
  [3120] Learning to write good programs in C and C++ - separating out repeated code - (2011-01-04)
  [2973] Learning to program - where to start if you have never programmed before - (2010-09-28)
  [2898] Programming Standards from the start! - (2010-08-02)
  [2504] Learning to program in ... - (2009-11-15)
  [2326] Learn a new programming language this summer. - (2009-08-06)
  [2294] Can you learn to program in 4 days? - (2009-07-16)
  [2286] New to programming? It is natural (but needless) for you to be nervous - (2009-07-14)
  [2092] Tracking difficult bugs, the programmer / customer relationship - (2009-03-20)
  [2048] Learning to program in PHP, Python, Java or Lua ... - (2009-02-19)
  [2001] I have not programmed before, and need to learn - (2009-01-19)
  [1985] Learning to program as a part of your job - (2009-01-10)
  [1963] Best source to learn Java (or Perl or PHP or Python) - (2008-12-28)
  [1605] Learning and understanding scripting programming techniques - (2008-04-08)
  [116] The next generation of programmer - (2004-11-13)

G200 - Well House Consultants - Course and Company information
  [3235] How we make our programming courses both time and cost effective - (2011-04-09)
  [3202] Telling you something about us in just one line - (2011-03-15)
  [3115] Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011 - (2010-12-31)
  [3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011 - (2010-12-29)
  [2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax - (2010-08-26)
  [2925] Well House - the pictures - (2010-08-16)
  [2838] Respecting our customers anonimity - (2010-06-29)
  [2777] Blowing our own trumpet - (2010-05-23)
  [2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries - (2010-05-13)
  [2661] Current Public Courses - (2010-03-05)
  [2659] New numbers, as 01225 707126 and 01225 709638 are being retired - (2010-03-04)
  [2637] Courses - Melksham and elsewhere - until the end of April - (2010-02-16)
  [2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct. - (2010-01-02)
  [2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010 - (2010-01-01)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2354] Training, Open Source computer languages - (2009-08-13)
  [2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more. - (2009-08-11)
  [2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä - (2009-08-09)
  [2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk - (2009-08-09)
  [2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog - (2009-08-09)
  [2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen - (2009-08-09)
  [2336] Formação, Open Source computador línguas - (2009-08-09)
  [2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen - (2009-08-09)
  [2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue - (2009-08-09)
  [2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto - (2009-08-09)
  [2332] Formation, des langages Open Source - (2009-08-09)
  [2278] First courses for 2010 - (2009-07-10)
  [2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses - (2009-06-11)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2118] Spring Sprung - (2009-04-05)
  [2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements - (2009-02-14)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop - (2008-04-26)
  [1577] Spring and early summer training courses - (2008-03-15)
  [1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size - (2008-03-05)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1384] An email update for past guests and delegates - (2007-10-08)
  [1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more - (2007-08-23)
  [1102] A Reference - (2007-03-08)
  [1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
  [1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007 - (2007-01-01)
  [564] Open Source training from Well House Consultants - (2006-01-14)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend - (2005-12-31)
  [504] We are about Open Source programming courses in the UK - (2005-11-24)
  [419] Most popular courses - (2005-08-19)
  [277] Fire drill - (2005-04-12)
  [234] How to get the best from your supplier - (2005-03-03)
  [181] Maximum number of trainees on a course - (2005-01-18)
  [13] Mobile Office revamp - (2004-08-13)

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