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Next in the sequence - courses next year (2009)

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-10-12 08:59:27 - Graham Ellis

Here's a sequence of numbers. 3, 7, 7, 4, 2, 6, 4, 1, 5. What are the following three numbers?

Quite an interesting puzzle, but it's a sequence of numbers I came across this morning ... and the following three were 3, 7 and 5 I'll tell you the trick of the sequence at the end of this article!

I have been putting together the diary for our 2009 courses - it's on line in the form of a course listing here and as a calendar here. There are also individual course descriptions which show the dates from the current time through to next summer:

Perl Programming
Perl for larger projects
Using Perl on the Web

Technology background forPHP
PHP Programming
Object Oriented PHP
PHP Techniques Workshop

Tcl Programming
Tcl - the Tk Toolkit

Deploying LAMP applications
Linux Basics
Linux Admin
Linux Web Server
Deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat

C Programming
C and C++ Programming
C++ Programming for C Programmers

Python Programming
Lua Programming
Ruby Programming
MySQL

Bookings are now open and to encourage people to think about 2009 even before Christmas 2008, we'll honour the 2008 prices for any bookings made up until the close of business on the last day we're open this December!

The sequence I started with? The first Saturday in January is the 3rd next year, the first Saturday in February is 7th, as it is in March. In April, the first Saturday is the 4th ....