Category: Education
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What’s the easiest way to boost your career as a software developer? Learn to touch type.
I’ve been a professional programmer for about 30 years, self-employed for 25 years, and doing full-time corporate Python training for more than a decade. I run a small business, which involves me writing, programming, and teaching, as well as handling all of the business-related stuff. So, what’s my most important skill, the thing that helps…
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My new course, “Understanding and Mastering Git,” is now available
Ah, Git. It’s one of the best and most important tools I use as a software developer. Git is everything I want in a version-control system: It’s fast. It lets me collaborate. I can work without an Internet connection. I can branch and merge easily, using a variety of techniques. I can take a personal…
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Level up your Python, with three new courses
Back in July, I gave three live, online courses: Object-oriented Python, functional Python, and Python decorators. I have long found that all three subjects are misunderstood by many Python developers, and I wanted to help people to understand how and when to use each one. I’m pleased to announce that recordings from all three courses…
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Yes, you can master regular expressions!
Announcing: My new book, “Practice Makes Regexp,” with 50 exercises meant to help you learn and master regular expressions. With explanations and code in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL. I spend most of my time nowadays going to high-tech companies and training programmers in new languages and techniques. Actually, many of the things I teach…
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Now available: My interview on “Developer on Fire” about training programmers
I was recently interviewed by Dave Rael for the “Developer on Fire” podcast. That episode has now been released, at http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/reuven-lerner-sharing-insight. Enjoy!
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Announcing: Coaching for technical trainers
What, exactly, do I do for a living? Yes, I’m a programmer — or as I’m supposed to say nowadays, a “full-stack Web developer.” And yes, I’m a lead developer/CTO. And yes, I’m a writer, with two ebooks written (about Python and visiting China), two more on the way, and my monthly Linux Journal column…
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My latest side project: DailyTechVideo.com, posting new conference videos every day
If you’re like me, you love to learn. And in our industry, a primary way of learning involves attending conferences. However, if you’re like me, you never have the time to actually attend them. (In my case, the fact that I live far away from where many conferences take place is an additional hindrance.) Fortunately,…
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“Practice Makes Python” is now available for early-bird purchase
My first ebook, “Practice Makes Python” — containing 50 exercises that will help to sharpen your Python skills — is now available for early-bird purchase! The book is already about 130 pages (and 26,000 words) long, containing about 40 exercises on such subjects as basic data structures, working with files, functional programming, and object-oriented development. But it’s not quite…
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Three Pythonic products: A (free) Webinar, a course, and an ebook
I love developing software. I also love helping people to learn how to develop better. That’s why I have been teaching programming classes for more than a decade, and why I write about programming. There is so much to learn; it’s a rare day on which I don’t learn something new, and it’s a rare…
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Announcing: Teaching to Code, a community of programming instructors
In the wake of my last blog post, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the practice of teaching, and specifically the practice of teaching programming. I’ve realized that while instruction in programming is increasingly popular and important, the people engaged in such instruction aren’t comparing notes, learning from one another, or generally working to…