I thought before I started this course, "oh, it's the third time I do this, it's all old hat, I'll just have a general recap blog post rather than weekly ones" but heh, as long as I keep learning and questions and topics to ponder come up, I'll keep writing …

   

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I will be attending FOSDEM again this year (weather and airline strikes permitting -- fingers crossed!). I'm also hoping to drop by the Gnome meetup on Saturday night and say hi to a few familiar faces.

Very much looking forward to it!

Post-session #1 thoughts (from Monday's scribbles):

• Note to self: Re-read carefully the lesson's content beforehand, to remember it all. Knowing what's "print" and what's a variable like the back of your hand doesn't mean you remember how to explain them to someone encountering the concepts for the first time. Very …

After a bit of tension over securing a room, someone sorted us out and I will therefore be teaching another introduction to programming with Python, to a group of beginners, starting Monday! Exciting. I have a draft of everything I want to do on the first day, I need to …

I'm preparing my next course at the moment. Another introduction to Python for beginners, but in a different context: this is for a group of political sciences students, who use R for statistical simulations and are encouraged to look up Python for the next level of that module.

...Well I …