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Longmont Public Classes

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We periodically offer public classes at a conference center in Longmont, Colorado.  These classes are 3-day sessions, are open to individual enrollment, and cover the same topics and lab work as the 3-day on-site sessions we provide at private customer sites.  Students of the Longmont classes arrange their own travel, hotel, meals, and recreation.  We'll provide the class while you're here.

This page describes our Longmont sessions in the following sections:

  1. Dates and Times
  2. Location
  3. Financial Details
  4. What You Should Bring

If you are looking for class topics, prerequisites, or other general information, please see our Course Topics and Overview pages.


Dates and Times

We usually hold 3 Longmont class sessions per year, around January, June, and October.  Currently, the following 2007 Longmont sessions are scheduled and open for enrollment:

Class begins at 9:00AM each day, and runs until 5:00PM, with a 1-hour break for lunch at noon.  The training room is open at 8:30 each morning, and has wireless Internet access.  There are a variety of restaurants within a short walk of the training site.


Location

Longmont classes are held at the Radisson hotel and conference center (formerly known as the Raintree Plaza), in Longmont, Colorado.  Longmont is a Front Range city located next to the Rocky Mountains, 15 miles northeast of Boulder, 30 miles northwest of Denver, and 40-45 minutes drive from the Denver airport (DIA) by car or airport shuttle.  The conference center is on the southwest side of Longmont, just east of the Twin Peaks mall. 

For location details, maps, and driving directions, please visit the hotel's web site at the following address:

The Radisson's street address is 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont CO 80501.  The room the class is held in can vary per session.  For the exact room location, please see signs posted in the hotel lobby, call the hotel, or inquire at the hotel's front desk.

For students attending from out of town, the Radisson Conference Center is also a full business hotel, and can provide accommodations.  Please visit the Radisson's website for hotel information.  Other options in the area:

Also for students coming from out of town, note that Colorado is on Mountain Standard Time: one hour later than the west coast, and two hours earlier than the east.  If you will be driving from DIA, the quickest route is to take E470 north, I25 north, and highway 119 west/left.  119 is the first exit for Longmont off I25, and becomes Ken Pratt in Longmont.  E470 is a toll road (you'll pay $1.75 twice), but saves 20 minutes driving time in ideal traffic, and more in rush hour.  The class site is also 15 to 20 minutes northeast of Boulder, via Diagonal highway 119.


Financial Details

Price

The price for our 3-day public classes in Longmont is $1,300 per student.  This price includes:

Students are expected to arrange and pay for their own travel expenses. 

Registration

To register for a public class, contact us by email (python-training@earthlink.net) or phone (303-709-8672).

Payment

Class fee payment is due at registration, and can be made by check or credit card.  To pay by credit card, please provide your card number and expiration date by phone or by email.  To pay by check, contact us for the payment address.  We can invoice your company if needed, and provide receipts for all forms of payment by email.

Registration Cutoff Dates

Unless the class is full, we are able to add students to the class roster until the first day of class.

Cancellation Policy

We provide a 100% refund of your payment in the unlikely event that we must cancel the class for any reason.  If you must cancel your registration, here is our refund policy (days in the following refers to calendar days):


What You Should Bring

Students are expected to bring their own laptop computers to the class, for doing lab work, and viewing projected course materials and examples.  We do not provide lab machines for students.

For student computers, almost any operating system is fine (Windows, Linux, and Macs are common), but please make sure you have a CD drive if you wish to view the electronic version of the class material.  We provide high-speed wireless Internet access in the classroom; you'll need a WiFi enabled computer or card if you wish to make use of this.  It is generally not practical to plug in wired connections.

Because you will be provided with a book, a workbook, and a class CD, you don't need to bring any other materials with you to the class.  Also, the class CD includes Python self-installers, so no software must be installed prior to the class; if you don't already have Python on your computer, you will install it from the CD during the first lab session.

If you do wish to preinstall, though, you can find the latest Python at www.python.org.  Mac OS X and Linux machines probably already have a Python suitable for the class.  If you are a UNIX developer bringing a Windows computer, you might also be interested in preinstalling Cygwin and its version of Python (see www.cygwin.com); this is a GPL-licensed library that provides full UNIX functionality on Windows machines.


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