About TechNoon

TechNoons are brief, free, industry-led, in-person training courses run at lunchtimes for people in technical jobs wanting to improve their skills. TechNoon courses will usually have four sessions of 2-3 hours each (including homework).

If you want to learn a new skill…

See if there are any upcoming courses in your area. If you don’t see something please make a suggestion using the TechNoon Contact Form and we’ll get back to you to find out more.

If you want to teach a short course…

We’d love to talk to you. Just fill in the TechNoon Contact Form and we’ll get back to you to find out more. Read the TechNoon Manifesto first to get a feel for the core concepts of TechNoon, and then read our guide for organisers to see what you’ll need to run your own course. If a course on the topic has already been run there may be resources you could reuse.

If your company wants to participate…

Perhaps you would like to improve staff skills in a specific area. Or maybe some of your staff would like to provide trining. Either way we’d love to hear from you. Please fill in the TechNoon Contact Form and we’ll get back to you to find out more.

Why TechNoon is needed

• Tertiary degrees and diplomas are not a good answer for people already in jobs. Even boot-camps are a significant challenge for most people with job commitments. Courses also tend to be too general with hit-and-miss content for people in specific roles.
• On-line courses and individual articles and documentation can’t provide the individualised support and the motivation that an in-person course can.
• Internal corporate training can’t achieve the economies of scale and specialisation of an industry-wide training ecosystem.
• Vendor training doesn’t cover the range of skills required and is not focused primarily on what is good for industry.

Is there a catch?

No - TechNoon has emerged from the open source software community and brings that ethos to technical training. The open, collaborative approach to software development has revolutionised the world of programming like it revolutionised science centuries earlier. Now it’s training’s turn.

Who runs TechNoon?

Anyone who wants to run a TechNoon can do so - people can decide whether to attend or not based on the trainer’s bio, the course outline, and the credibility of the trainer’s organisation.

What’s with the cowboy hat logo?

TechNoon started as PyNoon (Python programming training) before broadening out and PyNoon’s logo is a cowboy snake logo. PyNoon is a reference to the classic movie High Noon, thus the Western, cowboy theme.