Added a few questions

dabeaz · dabeaz · commit b7bffbe31331 · 2022-12-11T07:19:57.000-06:00
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pleased to make it available under a Creative Commons license. Enjoy!
 
 The material you see here is the heart of an instructor-led Python
 training course used for corporate training and professional
-development. It has been in continual development since 2007 and
+development. It was in continual development from 2007 to 2019 and
 battle tested in real-world classrooms.  Usually, it's taught
 in-person over the span of three or four days--requiring approximately
 25-35 hours of intense work. This includes the completion of
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ 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
+programming with an emphasis on script writing, basic data manipulation, and
 program organization.  By the end of this course, students should be
 able to start writing useful Python programs on their own or be able
 to understand and modify Python code written by their
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ This is not a course on web development.  That's a different
 circus. However, if you stick around for this circus, you'll still see
 some interesting acts--just nothing involving animals.
 
+This is not a course on using tools that happen to be written
+in Python. It's about learning the core Python language.
+
 This is not a course for software engineers on how to write or
 maintain a one-million line Python application. I don't write programs
 like that, nor do most companies who use Python, and neither should
@@ -122,6 +125,17 @@ caused everyone's head to explode or there was never enough time to
 cover it in the first place.   Also, this is a course, not a Python
 reference manual.
 
+### Q: Why isn't awesome `{command}` in awesome `{tool}` covered?
+
+The focus of this course is on learning the core Python language,
+not learning the names of commands in tools.
+
+### Q: Is this course being maintained or updated?
+
+This course represents a "finished product" that was taught and developed
+for more than decade.  I have no plans to revise the material at this time, but
+will occasionally fix bugs and add clarification.
+
 ### Q: Do you accept pull requests?
 
 Bug reports are appreciated and may be filed through the
