Category: Training and Teaching
I have used pygame for various personal and professional projects, and delivered a pygame workshop at EuroPython 2019. At the same conference I met an executive editor for the Springer Science and Business Media...
The organisers of PyBerlin, a large regular Python meetup, asked me to speak about the Python-based system which I use for creating training videos. The title of the talk was ‘Python: my favourite Swiss...
My first training video, Game Development with PyGame, involved a lot of editing. I have seen coding demonstrations at conferences, with the presenter typing and explaining the code at the same time. They make...
Springer Science and Business Media Company, through their APress publishing arm, originally approached me about writing a book for them. I suggested creating a training video for them instead. From this I have now...
Skiller Whale, an innovative training company for development teams, asked me to help them develop their advanced Python training materials. I created course outlines, 13 exercises and 25 code samples on multi threading, multi...
Recently Learning Tree, a well-respected training company, invited me to teach Python for them. Last week I delivered my first course for them, their Advanced Python course A room full of people, nearly 500...
Our children’s school asked me to teach the 14 – 16 year old pupils some electronics. To make it more interesting I threw in some robotics. During an intense teaching period I spent morning sessions...
Our children’s school (a Waldorf/Steiner school) believes that ideally children should build a computer before they use one. So I offered to work with the 15-16 year old pupils on this. My first computer...