I am regular at Quantopian and attended the latest Quantcon . They had some workshops, but to a large extent it was a huge topic (for example, “training”) due to the many disciplines.
Different languages, different levels of knowledge of these languages, different time frames, different securities and a general view of secrecy, where no one wants to share strategies.
For a programmer, I would focus on integrating the API (if you need it, some strategies are launched once a month, and then you manually start your transactions). For a noob programmer, I would focus on C # programming.
I apologize for being so widespread, but, as I said, this is a huge topic. There are miles between the long gamma hedge fund managing futures and HFT, with custom hardware chips.