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From: jto@litwin.com (John O'Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Practical Training
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.160149.4480@litwin.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:01:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com> <1991Jun5.182251.9708@cbfsb.att.com>
Organization: Litwin Process Automation
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In article <1991Jun4.192303.8772@auto-trol.com
alesha@auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) writes:
>>
>>I am planning to introduce some formal training for the software
>>developers in our business unit here and would like information on
>>things that have worked for you.
>>
>>I'm interested in hands-on training, where developers are given a
>>problem to solve, and to solve it well will have to use certain design
>>and coding techniques, the ones that the particular lesson is about.

I have taken classes from Yourdon (a Kodak company) and the Oracle people.
For generic analysis/design/project management, I can highly recomend the
Yourdon classes.  They offer a range of different classes of different
lengths (and depth).

Oracle's Database Design class is excellent even if you are not using
Oracle.  

I know thal Learning Tree offers a very wide range of classes and have
heard good things about them "from a friend of a friend".  They would