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README.md

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 --David Beazley ([https://dabeaz.com](https://dabeaz.com)), [@dabeaz](https://twitter.com/dabeaz)
 
-## Prerequisites and Target Audience
+## What is This?
 
 The material you see here is the heart of an instructor-led Python
-training course.  It is typically taught in-person over the span of
-three or four days--requiring approximately 25-35 hours of work. This
-includes the completion of approximately 130 hands-on coding exercises.
+training course used for corporate training and professional
+development.  It is usually taught in-person over the span of three or
+four days--requiring approximately 25-35 hours of work. This includes
+the completion of approximately 130 hands-on coding exercises.
+
+## Target Audience
 
 The target audience is scientists, engineers, and programmers who
 already have experience in at least one other programming language. No
@@ -26,16 +29,13 @@ programming topics is assumed.  Most participants find the course
 challenging--even if they've already been doing a bit of Python
 programming.
 
+## Course Objectives
+
 The goal of this course is to cover foundational aspects of Python
 programming with an emphasis on script writing, data manipulation, and
-program organization. The course does NOT focus on Python tooling,
-IDEs, or third-party packages (i.e., it's not focused on using data
-science libraries, Jupyter Notebooks, or on how to deploy an app to
-the cloud).  It IS a course that aims to cover fundamental ideas about
-how Python programs work and how they are organized.  Students WILL
-have to write scripts, functions and classes, work with code spread
-across multiple source files, deal with modules, and solve various
-problems related to refactoring.
+program organization.  
+
+## Requirements
 
 To complete this course, you need nothing more than a basic
 installation of Python 3.6 or newer and time to work on it--especially
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 This is not a course for absolute beginners on how to program a
 computer.  It is assumed that you already have programming experience
-in some other programming language or Python itself. You're not
-going to find cute stories about looping--or why you would want to do it.
-
-This is not a course that aims to cover absolutely everything there is to know
-about Python.  There is only so much material you can cover in 3-4 days
-before heads start to explode.  If you're working through the course
-and wondering "why wasn't X covered?" there's probably a good 
-reason--it was once included and it made everyone's head explode.
-Either that or there simply wasn't enough time to cover it.
-
-This is not a course that aims to cover reference material, tricks, or
-recipes that you could just look up on
-[python.org](https://python.org), Google, or Stack Overflow. Yes,
-there is enough reference material given to be functional, but the
-course is more focused on how to work with and think about Python
-coding.
+in some other programming language or Python itself.
 
 This is not a course for software engineers on how to write or
 maintain a one-million line Python program. I don't write programs
-like that and neither should you. Delete something already! 
-Python is a great language for personal productivity, prototyping ideas,
-and hacking cool things together. The course is about doing THAT in
-a way that's both practical and not so "hacky" that your co-workers
-give you stink-eye when they look at your code. 
+like that, nor do most companies who use Python, and neither should
+you. Delete something already!  Python is a great language for
+personal productivity, prototyping ideas, and getting work done. The
+course is about doing THAT in a way that's practical, accessible, and
+not so "hacky" that your co-workers give you stink-eye when they look
+at your code.
 
 ## Take me to the Course Already!