Tim Ansell wrote:
We would prefer an open source language like Python or PHP. Java would
be a last choice.
Are the online tutorials not enough?
My preferred way to learn a new language is to reimplement some
well-known wheel in it. Pick something that you can start small and
work upward, adding new features and ideas and making it more complex.
Pick a problem that solves a need you have now (rather than, say, a
widget sales department or Third-Order Chebyshev Filter resistor
calculator). Write it in two or three different ways - an array-based
implementation, one using string storage, and one using files, for
instance. Follow the (online) tutorials but apply the knowledge to your
own problem.
The only reason to do a training course, IMNSHO, is to get a certificate
at the end. You can learn the same stuff just as well online or from a
book, these days.
Have fun,
Paul
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