> I am a postdoctoral research scientist learning Python programming. I > would like to hire a tutor who can spend 1-2 hours a week with me going > overand critiquing my programming.
We are not available for hire but we do offer a critique service on code to a limited degree - ie we don;t code review hundreds (or thousands) of lines worth! But if you want to try ideas out and ask us how they can be improved we can do that. > programming classes (not free tutorials), which offer structure and > feedback for a reasonable price. To my surprise, I havent been very > successful. There are some traditional traiing companies that teach Python, mainly in the US although at least one is here in the UK too. But I don't know of anyone online who does that. > Working with online free tutorials hasnt been an ideal approach, partly > because I dont get feedback and partly because they dont completely > meet my requirements. This list tries to provide feedback for most of the online tuts, and I provide a feedback link on every page of my tutor and usually respond to queries etc within 48 hours. > Cares about good programming practices and is able to provide cogent > explanations of programming principles. > Can instruct me in the finer points of breaking a programming problem down > into constituent parts. > Is well versed in Python. It would be great (but not necessary) if he/she > were also familiar with data mining practices. We do that here, but instead of one tutor you get dozens... > I would be willing to pay 20-30$ an hour (or more depending on instructor > qualifications). And we are free. But you don't get one on one tuition. And its public so you have to be happy to share your mistakes. So I don't know how you get exactly what you want but this list offers some of it for free. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
