"Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special." - in answer to a request from a potential delegate.

Some delegates come with prior programming experience / others without - and they require different starting points. So we offer "Learning to Program in Python" - 5 days for newcomers to coding, and "Python Programming" - 4 days for those with prior programming experience. This means that newcomers won't get lost early on, and established programmers won't be in for a very slow start.

Public courses are limited to 8 delegates (and usually run with 3 to 5 people) meaning there's plenty of time for the tutor to spend with each person's individual issues and application - and to introduce the modules that are of interest to that person without the need for the course to formally cover a multitude of extension that few of the delegates will use.

Course run at our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire, where we also offer overnight accommodation (currently ranked no. 1 on Trip Advisor in Melksham!) and that means no 5 p.m. chuckout if you want to carry on, with access to training room early and late and a chance to network with other delegates, use the open source library, etc.

Once you are booked, we will not cancel a course (even if you are the only delegate) nor will we "consolidate" it at the last minute (or at any time!) with another course running in a different part of the UK - perhaps 500 miles away.

With Python (and with any programming language) there are concepts / elements that are best understood when demonstrated - and we will show you HOW we write programs and not just the end result. You'll need to be writing programs yourself, after all, and just showing you the finished product is useful but not as useful as it could be. We're able to do this (not easy on the tutor) because our material is actually written by the tutor, who uses Python every day yet is a professional tutor who's very used to teaching and getting the meaning and the techniques across. Our course tend to be "light" on subjects that you can easily read up on later - there seems little point in reading out lists of methods to you when you can easily look them up for yourself when you need. But, yes, we will tell you how and where to look them up.

Post-course, you're able to use all the examples from our web site,and we'll email you the examples written "in front of your eyes" too. And you can get back in touvh with me - the tutor - if you've questions you feel I can help with. Happy to help.

With Python, we're currently on the move from Python 2 to Python 3. The changes, though much discussed, aren't actualy that great for the programmer and the course will cover the differences. The tutor will establish the background / needs of the group to ensure the right mix is taught. Delegate systems run both versions, practicals are your choice.

What we don't offer is the same scheduled courses worldwide, so it you're looking for a course for you in the UK and an identical course for a colleague in Vancouver, that's probably not us. But then such a course needs to be reduced to a common denominator and may not be the best individual solution - and it certainly won't be presented by a tutor who has the intimate knowldge of what he's teaching from having actually written the course.

For details - see Learning to program in Python and Python Programming.
(written 2015-10-28, updated 2015-10-29)

 G303 - Well House Consultants - During the course
  [56] Dress Code - (2004-09-20)
  [273] Course Picture - (2005-04-09)
  [342] The evening after the course - (2005-06-09)
  [455] A Stengthening day - (2005-10-04)
  [570] Features and Benefits - (2006-01-20)
  [640] Training Centre Pictures - (2006-03-09)
  [670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
  [1035] Longer hours and better value courses - (2007-01-15)
  [1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions - (2007-06-25)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007 - (2007-11-03)
  [1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further - (2007-12-05)
  [1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach - (2007-12-09)
  [1816] Holt on holt - (2008-09-29)
  [2342] Training Classes in other tongues - (2009-08-10)
  [2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct. - (2010-01-02)
  [3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End - (2011-04-07)
  [3588] Learning about how to help people learning - and retaining - (2012-01-21)
  [3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures - (2012-06-21)
  [4132] Using your own laptop on our courses - now even easier! - (2013-07-05)

G310 - Well House Consultants - A better class of course
  [211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL. - (2005-02-12)
  [215] Open Source becomes mainstream - (2005-02-14)
  [219] Some unusual features - (2005-02-18)
  [224] YOUR application and YOUR data - (2005-02-22)
  [230] Course sizes - beware of marketing statistics - (2005-02-27)
  [292] Elegant languages - Perl, PHP, Python - (2005-04-26)
  [350] Want to be one better - (2005-06-17)
  [371] The training team that's looking out for you - (2005-07-07)
  [394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses - (2005-07-28)
  [497] I have a river to cross - (2005-11-16)
  [554] What backup is adequate? - (2006-01-04)
  [559] ''I don't know'' is sometimes a good answer - (2006-01-09)
  [577] Learning to program in Perl or PHP - (2006-01-26)
  [579] Short Linux and Perl courses for small groups - (2006-01-27)
  [646] PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course - (2006-03-14)
  [726] In praise of training course delegates. - (2006-05-20)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses - (2007-12-30)
  [1576] Making PHP and MySQL training relevant to the course delegates - (2008-03-15)
  [1645] Seeing how others do it - PHP training - (2008-05-17)
  [1933] Learning to Program in C - (2008-12-10)
  [2010] How long should a training module be? - (2009-01-27)
  [2049] Why Choose Well House Consultants for your course? - (2009-02-20)
  [2074] Weekday or Weekend PHP, Python and Perl classes? - (2009-03-10)
  [2084] Books and distance learning from Well House Consultants? - (2009-03-15)
  [2109] Why most training fails ... - (2009-03-30)
  [2187] Are we IITT (Institute of IT Training) members? - (2009-05-17)
  [2633] Why do I teach niche skills rather than mainstream? - (2010-02-13)
  [2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries - (2010-05-13)
  [3001] How will we present courses over the coming years? - (2010-10-17)
  [3271] The importance of feedback - (2011-04-30)
  [3385] Do university courses teach the right things for life at work later on? - (2011-08-10)
  [3419] Data that we use during our training courses, and other training resources - (2011-09-04)
  [3587] C++ Courses - do I get official certification at the end of my Well House course? - (2012-01-20)
  [4280] Making use of huge data, object orientation, unit testing and frameworks - (2014-06-07)
  [4583] Back in the saddle again - excellent open source course from Well House Consultants - (2015-11-26)

G302 - Well House Consultants - Coming to a course.
  [2] Diary entry - 5th August 2004 - (2004-08-05)
  [264] 100% Training - (2005-04-01)
  [306] Bristol Airport this morning, The Farm this evening. - (2005-05-09)
  [464] Technical Loneliness - (2005-10-14)
  [490] A new way to get lost - (2005-11-08)
  [695] In the hospitality business - (2006-04-23)
  [898] Courses at Well House Manor - (2006-10-19)
  [933] Course Joining package - updated - (2006-11-20)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [1792] All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses - (2008-09-10)
  [1996] Advise before my Apache / Tomcat course - (2009-01-16)
  [2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-19)
  [2286] New to programming? It is natural (but needless) for you to be nervous - (2009-07-14)
  [2835] A course is more than just a chap giving a lecture - (2010-06-28)
  [4231] Well House Consultants - Public Training Course times for 2014 - (2013-12-26)
  [4335] Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++ - (2014-11-30)

Y050 - Python - General
  [16] Python training - (2004-08-16)
  [2017] Python - a truly dynamic language - (2009-01-30)
  [2020] Learning Python - many new example programs - (2009-01-31)
  [2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses - (2009-06-11)
  [2285] Great new diagrams for our notes ... Python releases - (2009-07-13)
  [2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles - (2009-08-20)
  [2394] Two days of demonstration scripts in Python - (2009-09-05)
  [2504] Learning to program in ... - (2009-11-15)
  [2778] Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3 - (2010-05-24)
  [2822] Python training courses for use with ESRI ArcMap software - (2010-06-23)
  [3076] Python through the Snow - (2010-12-01)
  [3463] Busy weekend of contrasts. - (2011-10-03)
  [3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game - (2011-10-20)
  [3519] Python - current versions and implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython etc) - (2011-11-13)
  [3798] When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example - (2012-07-06)
  [3816] Want to escape the Olympics? Learn to program in the countryside! - (2012-07-23)
  [3902] Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when? - (2012-10-22)
  [3903] Python Programming class for delegates who have already self-taught the basics - (2012-10-25)
  [3911] How well do you know Perl and / or Python? - (2012-11-04)
  [3935] Whether you have programmed before or not, we can teach you Python - (2012-11-25)
  [4236] Using Python to analyse last years forum logs. Good coding practise discussion. - (2014-01-01)
  [4295] A longer Python ... training course - (2014-09-16)
  [4408] Additional Python courses added to our schedule - (2015-01-29)
  [4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates - (2015-02-21)
  [4656] Identifying the first and last records in a sequence - (2016-02-26)
  [4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3 - (2016-10-30)

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