Safari Books Online Hosts Complimentary
Webcast on Python, the Increasingly Popular Internet & Systems Programming Language

Exclusive Webcast on April 29th Offers Participants Chance to Hear Wesley Chun, Leading Python Developer, Trainer, Consultant and Author

Sebastopol, CA - April 14, 2009
Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, creative and business professionals, announced today that it is hosting a complimentary webcast on Wednesday, April 29th at 10:30 a.m. PT, / 1:30 p.m. ET with Wesley Chun, leading Python developer and trainer, and author of Core Python Programming and its video training course, Python Fundamentals.

Register for this complimentary event by visiting this website: http://www.safaribooksonline.com/events/WhatIsPython.html.
The first 10 attendees to sign up will receive a free autographed copy of Core Python Programming, and all webcast attendees will receive 45 days of complimentary access to the title on Safari Books Online. Subscribers can download and print content and they can view the content online or in PDF format from a computer or mobile device like the iPhone/iPod touch.

During the April 29th webcast, Chun will give participants a high-level overview introducing them to the Python language, including its features, syntax, etc., as well as some of its popular application areas. Chun will address the fundamentals of the language itself, including:

• Syntax and Style
• Development and Run-time Environments
• Objects and the Python Memory Model
• Data Types and Operators
• Files and Input/Output
• Errors and Exceptions
• Functions and Functional Programming
• Object-Oriented Programming

In the past year, the Python language has been awarded the Linux New Media "Best Open Source Programming Language" award and the LinuxQuestions.org "Programming Language of the Year". (see relevant links: http://tinyurl.com/d72yzg and http://tinyurl.com/c9a355)

"Our subscribers have instant online access to over 8,000 books, training videos, pre-published manuscripts, technical articles, and more – all contained in one searchable, on-demand digital library. And the best part is knowing that all the content on Safari Books Online is from the world's leading publishers and authors like Wesley Chun," said Paige Mazzoni, vice president of marketing, Safari Books Online. "Safari Books Online's vast collection of reliable, up to date, vetted content for technology, creative and business & management professionals equips users with the knowledge, tools and resources necessary to remain competitive in today's economy."

About The Author

Wesley Chun, MSCS, is author of the bestseller, Core Python Programming and its video training course, Python Fundamentals, and co-author of Python Web Development with Django. In addition to being a senior software engineer, he runs CyberWeb, a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. Mr. Chun has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com) is an on-demand digital library delivering expert content in both book and video form from the world’s leading authors in technology and business. Technology professionals, software developers, Web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Safari Books Online offers a range of business-to-business product mixes and pricing programs for every sized organization, as well as business-to-consumer options for individual users.

Thousands of books, prepublication manuscripts, short documents, articles and instructional videos are available at Safari Books Online in one fully searchable database from publishers like Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, lynda.com, IBM Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing, Apress, Manning, New Riders, Apple Certified, Course Technology, Splash Media and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us online. 

About Pearson Education

The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson Education is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm InformIT (www.informit.com) -The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit (www.peachpit.com), the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals.

Pearson is also co-founder, with O'Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online (http://safari.informit.com), the premier on-demand technology content library providing thousands of expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including expert technology, creative and design, industry and management resources in video, audio and written formats.

Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

Contacts

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rstclair@safarijv.com
or
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