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Good course. Very competent trainer for this introduction. The course offers wide spectrum of topics and goes into depth were participants need it most.

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Highly recommended. Many aha-experiences and took home many positive inspiratons.

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Good course. Very fast progress without any prior Python knowledge.

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Very nice course, got many useful suggestions.

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Mike is an outstanding teacher ... I will look for his classes in the future.

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The Python Summer Course was a very good opportunity to know almost all about Python. ... Highly recommended!!

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We had a wide range of Python experience in our group and each person gained something valuable to take away....

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I can absolutely recommend this course to everybody who wants become productive with Python very quickly. ...

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The standard Python for programmers and the customized "Python for Experts" course where a great success. ...

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[The trainer] knows well what scientists need, so his hints are very practical and valuable. The hands-on course [..] covers a wide range of examples and will be very helpful in my daily work. ...

Dorota Jarecka, University of Warsaw about the course "Python for Scientists and Engineers" more ...

The course "Python for Scientists and Engineers" is a very useful introduction to Python programming for scientific applications ...

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Very good introduction to the programming language.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Course at the Teaching Center in Leipzig

What operating system runs on the teaching computers?
May I bring my own laptop?
Is there WALN access?

Corporate Courses

What course topics do you offer?
Can we have a corporate course at the reaching center in Leipzig?
Do you offer also courses in German?

Python

Who uses Python?
An interpreted language is slow, isn't?

Course at the Teaching Center in Leipzig

Question:: What operating system runs on the teaching computers?
Answer:: The teaching computers run Windows..

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Question:: May I bring my own laptop?
Answer:: Your are invited to bring your own laptop. Please tell us before the course if plan to do so. Depending on the course, you should have installed the necessary Python libraries. We are glad to tell which ones we need.

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Question:: Is there WALN access?
Antwort:: Yes. Both, the computers in the teaching center as wells the laptops participants bring with them have WLAN access.

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Corporate Courses

Question:: What course topics do you offer?
Answer:: We offer a wide range of Python topics. We assemble an individual course from this for you an in-house course. We also develop new courses if you are interested in additional topics.

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Question:: Can we have a corporate course at the reaching center in Leipzig?
Answer:: Of course. The advantage of the teaching center is that the participants can fully concentrate on the course without any disturbances But in-house are always possible.

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Question:: Do you offer also courses in German?
Answer:: Yes. All courses are offered in English and German. Please look at our German website.

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Python

Question:: Who uses Python?
Answer:: Goggle uses Python intensively. "Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." so Peter Norvig, "Director of search quality" at Google, Inc. Lately, Google employs many well know people, who are involved in the development of the Python language itself or open source projects in Python. Since end of 2005, even the originator of Python, Guido van Rossum, is at Google. Other prominent users of Python are the NASA, Thawte (now part of VeriSign), Yahoo, and Red Hat. Python is considerably used by the scientific community.

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Question:: An interpreted language is slow, isn't?
Answer:: For many application run time speed is somewhat secondary. Due to the power of modern hardware there is no perceived difference in speed for graphical user interfaces between Python and other, compiled programming languages. However, for numerical calculations, often referred to as number crunching, Python is comparably slow. But since Python is such a great glue language there are numerous tools that bring the speed of C or FORTRAN to Python, while preserving the ease of use Python provides. Numeric and f2py are two applications in this category.

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