About

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an MIT graduate with 38 years of experience in computing. Paul is one of the world’s most experienced programming-languages trainers, having taught hundreds of instructor-present and virtual courses worldwide (based on his Pearson Education programming-language publications) to software developers of all skill levels since 1992. He is an Oracle® Java® Champion.

He is a top author on O’Reilly Online Learning where his Python Fundamentals LiveLessons, Java Fundamentals LiveLessons and C# Fundamentals LiveLessons 50+ hour asynchronous video courses have ranked #1 eight of the last 12 years among 6,000 video products from 200+ publishers. Thousands of users have viewed his asynchronous streaming Python Fundamentals LiveLessons videos for 10.5+ million contact minutes. 14,000+ students have attended his live (synchronous), one-day, code-intensive Python Full Throttle, Python Data Science Full Throttle and Java Full Throttle courses for 3.5+ million contact minutes.

He has delivered courses to academic, industry, government and military clients internationally, including Schlumberger (beginning in Q3 2022), UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot and many more. He and his co-author, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are among the world’s bestselling programming-language authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 58 years of experience in computing. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University— he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science programs. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels’ publications have earned international recognition, with more than 100 translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, industry, government and military clients.

Deitel & Associates, Inc., founded by Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel, is an internationally recognized authoring and corporate training organization, specializing in computer programming languages, data science/AI, object technology, mobile app development and Internet and web software technology. The company’s training clients include some of the world’s largest companies, government agencies, branches of the military, and academic institutions. The company offers instructor-led training courses delivered on-site or online covering major programming languages and platforms. Through its 47-year publishing partnership with Pearson/Prentice Hall, Deitel & Associates, Inc., publishes leading-edge programming textbooks and professional books in print and e-book formats, LiveLessons video courses, Safari-Live online seminars and Revel™ interactive multimedia courses.