Last Monday I started teaching my introduction to programming course, edition #2 to a small group of adults this time. Here are a few thoughts from the evening.
First of all, as expected getting Python to work on multiple platforms as well as more or …
The other day I created an "Ireland" tag on this blog and thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool to go back and tag all the posts I wrote about events in Ireland, so I have an easy way to see what's going on locally?
Of course retagging each post manually …
read moreThis sounds so, so cool: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. "Join us in Barcelona for three days of making, teaching, hacking, inventing and shaping the future of education and the web."
Three days in the middle of the week, in another country, it's unlikely I'll be able to go, but damn... I'll …
read moreThe new shiny OSS Bar Camp website is up! University College Dublin, week-end of the 25th and 26th of September. Many awesome people already signed up. Register now!
read moreI did my talk in TOG tonight. I think it went quite well! I certainly got some positive feedback afterwards. Lots of room for improvements still, of course, many "um"s especially at the beginning, and it probably would have been better if I had rehearsed more, to remove the …
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