Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++
The art of providing excellent niche courses at a sensible price comes from having the flexibility to cater for various backgrounds and requirements through the common code. A course starts tomorrow morning, and I've got a near-perfect group of three delegates.
One delegate has already arrived, into Melksham by train from the north of England. A second delegate lives in Hampshire and will be driving up tomorrow morning before the course starts, then staying over. The third delegate lives just a few miles away and will be communing daily.
It's great to have that flexibiity.
One delegate is with us to learn to program in C, and won't be staying on to cover the additional aspects of C++ on Thursday and Friday. The second delegate is staying on to cover C++ on Thursday and Friday. And the third delegate would like to stay, but has other prior commitments and can't; she'll be coming back just before Christmas for us to go through C++, being taken from the position of someone who's learned C.
It's great to have that flexibiity.
All delegates were offered either a "programming" course which assumes competent prior programming, or a "learning to program in ..." course, designed for those without prior programming experience or feeling rusty / unsure of their knowledge or wanting the re-assurance of an extra day being formally taught the basics. This week, everyone's taking the extra day, and from speaking to the delegates ahead of time that will give us a gentle run in as I teach what's perhaps the lowest level and hardest of the language groups we teach - C and C++.
It's great to have that flexibiity.
For details of subsequent courses, see
[here] ... although you'll see most of the courses described as C++, I'm just as happy to teach you pure C as well.
It's great to have that flexibiity.
(written 2014-11-30)
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