OT - Git training Lon/HK and book recommendation on taste in programming

[Laeeth Isharc]

Hi.

First question - can anyone recommend git / Gitlab training 
providers in HK and London?  Two distinct audiences - highly 
intelligent people that may or may not really program, and 
experienced developers with a finance background that could 
benefit from knowing how to use git properly (finance is often in 
the dark ages).

On the former we are even getting HR, legal and compliance to 
start to use git for documents.  So some handholding will be 
required.

I would like a combination of classroom, small group on-premise 
training and somebody being in the office a few hours a week to 
help show people.

No experience is necessarily required for the latter provided you 
know git well and can patiently explain things in a way less 
advanced people will understand.  It could even be a nice 
part-time job for a student and we could pay well.  Not that we 
wouldn't look at a professional either - I just mean that I am 
open minded.

Second question.  Lots of people these days start to program to 
solve their problems at work but they may never have been shown 
the basic principles of design, structuring and maintenance of 
their code.  If I could give them one book (and a few YouTube 
links) what should it be ?

Simple things like it's okay to write functions, start with 
getting the data structures right, quality is fractal (Walter 
making little improvements to DMD for example), value of 
simplicity and things that are harder to explain like the proper 
composition of a system.

I would appreciate any suggestions on either one.


Laeeth