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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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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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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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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