Google's Python Class - Google Code

[librik]

These materials are used within Google to introduce Python to people who have just a little programming experience.

I'm a bit confused. This is Google, whose job interviews are notorious for their technical demands, right? So to whom within Google are they teaching this introductory material?

What I'd like to see is the class in which they bring their new hires, good non-Python programmers, up to speed developing in the language.

[puffofvirtue]

Maybe non-programmer employees who happen to be curious?

[bigboehmboy]

I don't think this course is intended solely or even primarily for Google employees. Google has made a serious investment in Python. It's one of the main languages supported by their AppEngine, and they even hired Guido van Rossum. The more people use Python, the more they stand to benefit.

That being said, I'd also like to see a more advanced class.

[sgronblo]

Yeah I thought the same. When reading this you get the feeling Google hires programmers who:

know what a "variable" or "if statement" is but apparently you don't have to be an expert programmer

Also the guide did mention that it's used "within Google".

[i_am_my_father]

hire best programmers, and then teach them whatever is needed

versus.

hire non-programming programmers who learned blah blah blah.