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What is programming?

  • September 15th, 2009
  • Posted in General Programming . Python . Teaching

“So why programming, what is it really?” Programming is writing instructions for how parts make a whole.  Take, for instance, legos.  Remember getting legos for your birthday?  Did you read the instructions or just start building?  To build the lego Millennium Falcon you must assemble thousands of parts according to the blueprint. “Legos are fun, but what [ READ MORE ]

Programming For Fun: Introduction to intro Python

  • July 29th, 2009
  • Posted in General Programming . Python . Teaching

I’ve been wanting to teach a course for some time and I am now being afforded the chance.  The target audience are people who have never written a line of code; and what I’d like to do is get people interested in python programming using humor and non-technical metaphor.  After some thought, I roughed out [ READ MORE ]

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