Bernard has more than 15 Years of experience as part-time and full-time lecturer and trainer: University of Pretoria (Hons class in Informatics), Monash (First Year Introduction to Business Computing and Second Year Software Development), University of Witwatersrand ("Organization, Data, Information and Business Intelligence") and Oracle University.
Technical courses include :
Information Technology experience includes: IT blueprints, outsourcing, data migration, and software development. The project environments include: research, financial services, medical services, telecommunications, short-term insurance, mining, retail and IT outsourcing.
Project Management experience include acting as senior project manager on IT Projects, setting up project approaches and project offices, acting as a project mentor and trainer, and as an IT Team Service Manager
Memberships:
Award: Oracle University: “Best Fusion Middleware Lecturer. ZA FY2010 and ZAFY2011â€
Relevant Qualifications and Training:
Date: 2014 APM Group. Passed Agile Practitioner. Certificate Number 02905943-01-L9LH
Date: 2005 APM Group, on behalf of the Office of Government Commerce (United Kingdom),
London Passed PRINCE2 Practitioners Examination and certified as a "PRINCE2 Practitioner".
Date: 1998 University of Pretoria Advanced Certificate in Information Systems Management (cum laude).
Project Management and Decision Support were amongst the subjects
Date: 1993 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Course in "Managing People in Software Development"
Mark is the Managing Director of Leading Edge Business Solutions. Mark has been programming since the age of 10 when he wrote his fist Basic Program on an Apple IIe. He has always been passionate about computers and education and started tutoring matric students in 1994. Mark has been training advanced Linux courses, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers since November 1999. In 2002 Mark began training Perl courses. Mark was among the first group to write the LPI level 2 Certification in South Africa in 2004. Since March 2006 Mark has been training PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. Since 2009 Mark has started training Java and Python.
Mark's formal qualifications include:
Bsc (Engineering) Electrical
Institution: University of the Witwatersrand.
Final Subjects IncludedComputer Engineering
Certification: Level 2 Certification
Institution: Linux Professional Institute
All programming languages require a set of skills, as well as a certain approach or way of thinking. Once a user has acquired these skills, learning the specifics of any programming language becomes a whole lot easier. The Python programming language lends itself to teaching the basic programming skills that all programmers require. It is easy to learn, implements multiple programming paradigms, and has a shell that allows users to try out their code interactively.
This short instructor-led training course uses Python’s strengths as a beginner’s programming language to gently introduce the aspiring programmer to the art of coding. You will find these classes non-threatening and surprisingly easy.
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of four delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Delivery Method | Duration | Price (excl. VAT) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulltime | 3 Days | R 7,887.00 | |
| Webinar | 3 Days | R 5,547.00 |
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
All aspiring programmers and anyone who would like to progress to our normal Python Course, but who has never coded before.
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Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of four delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Start Date | End Date | Branch | Status | |
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| Mon 14 Feb 2022 | Wed 16 Feb 2022 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 11 Apr 2022 | Wed 13 Apr 2022 | Not Applicable | Scheduled | |
| Mon 20 Jun 2022 | Wed 22 Jun 2022 | Not Applicable | Provisional | |
| Mon 15 Aug 2022 | Wed 17 Aug 2022 | Not Applicable | Provisional | |
| Mon 10 Oct 2022 | Wed 12 Oct 2022 | Not Applicable | Provisional | |
| Mon 5 Dec 2022 | Wed 7 Dec 2022 | Not Applicable | Provisional |
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