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Mark Lutz's Python TrainingInstructor |
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Mark Lutz is a leading Python trainer, the author of Python's earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community.
Mark is the author of the popular O'Reilly books Learning Python, Programming Python, and Python Pocket Reference, all currently in 4th Editions. He has been using and promoting Python since 1992, started writing Python books in 1995, and began teaching Python classes in 1997. As of May 2012, Mark has instructed over 250 Python training sessions, taught roughly 4,000 students, and written Python books which have sold 500,000 copies and been translated to at least a dozen languages.
Together, his Python efforts since 1992 have helped to establish it as one of the most widely-used programming languages in the world today. In addition, Mark holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin where he explored implementations of the Prolog language, and over the last 26 years has worked as a professional software developer on compilers, programming tools, scripting applications, and assorted client/server systems.
Mark maintains an additional book support site on the web at www.rmi.net/~lutz, but hasn't updated his resume in quite some time.