<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jan 6, 2020, at 12:09, Tony Godshall <<a href="mailto:tony@of.net" class="">tony@of.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">An actual monthly Python tutorial would actually be a service to the community.<br class="">Not as show up and keep your nose in your laptop like you could do at home.<br class="">An ACTUAL Python class!<br class="">A loth of the Python groups have people talk about what they did with Python,<br class="">but NONE of them go into "This is how you code in Python"<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/PyClass" class="">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/PyClass</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">For those who haven’t made the leap, that’s because a lot of classes about learning programming have moved to two different sorts of platforms:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. YouTube. E.g., <a href="http://freeCodingCamp.org" class="">freeCodingCamp.org</a>’s 4-1/2 hour (!) python class: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Udemy, which is a mix of videos and text, e.g.: <a href="https://www.udemy.com/course/python-the-complete-python-developer-course/" class="">https://www.udemy.com/course/python-the-complete-python-developer-course/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are Udemy competitors, but no one offers the same bang for the buck. I’ve looked.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been through a 200-hour (!) Swift class on Udemy and it really helped. For me, while I find videos annoying with the amount of time it takes vs. reading, I retain the information better.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It sure beats my old tried-and-true method of do what you can until you get stuck, then hunt around on Stack Overflow for an answer in between searching documentation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>