Gather round and listen to a story of me, self-surveillance, entrepreneurship, and a miniconference about the Python programming language ( Read more... )

Today on my way to PyOhio, the regional Saturday/Sunday Python miniconference in Columbus. Here's a page where you can view or download the program book I made for it as a PDF.

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le_bebna_kamni knows Java really well, which has come in handy for tutoring, I can tell you ( Read more... )

I've received some very good comments to my blog, concerning the style of my comments in source code. It's true that in professional projects, very obvious comments are counterproductive, especially when changes are made to the code they are explaining. However, for the time being, I'm trying to remember Java itself, not the decisions particular to ( Read more... )

I would like very much to know who responded anonymously to my post a year and a half ago about learning to program, with the advice I have copied below. Normally I ignore all anonymous posters, but this was a well-intentioned and unusually helpful comment, rather than a cowardly bad anonymous comment. Under the circumstances I would like to know ( Read more... )

I walked into the first class of Intro To Java and it was totally quiet. I sat down and the guy behind me asked me, "Hey, why do people learn Java ( Read more... )