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Author Archives: Peter
Conway’s Game of Life
Learning to program, at least if you’re going in a more scholarly direction, means at the least hearing about John Conway’s Game of Life. It’s all about cellular automata, and it was invented in 1970–but it still is perfectly relevant, … Continue reading
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Some more lists
Not many things I like more than lists of interesting, funny, or challenging quotes. Or just lists of things that I might be interested in. Like these: 60 Selected Best Famous Quotes, starting with “You can do anything, but not … Continue reading
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Low-tech Magazine
Watch the movie War Games sometime if you have any interest in seeing how things were done back before computers were everywhere. It’s a real time-capsule from 1983, full of modems and rotary telephones and libraries with card catalogs and … Continue reading
More programming-related links of interest
As the title suggests, another hodge-podge of links that look to be useful (or that I’ve already found to be useful), relating one way or another to programming, especially learning about programming: Vi Cheat Sheet is indeed a very handy … Continue reading
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Spreadsheets powered by Python and more
I often find it very useful to summarize the content I find at a place like Reddit, particularly when people are looking for advice about learning something new–particularly about programming or other networking/computing technologies. That especially includes today’s source: Spreadsheets … Continue reading
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More Active Resources for Programming
Sometimes you need to read up on a problem; other times you need to find some problems to work on–as well as the possibility of finding the answers (or at least some help finding those answers). Unlike the resources I’ve … Continue reading
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Resources for learning and using MySQL
Using a database, particularly a relational database, is pretty much a requirement for doing interesting things with the web these days (of course, it’s been like that since the beginning, pretty much). So you’ll need to learn how to use … Continue reading
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More resources for learning about programming and app development
I’ve got an application/website idea that I really want to develop; I’ve got any number of other ideas for website/apps that keep appearing in my mind. Rather than just think about them, I’m trying to educate myself about programming, web … Continue reading
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Resources for Learning How to Program PART ONE
If you’re interested in learning how to program, and you don’t know much about it, DON’T rush off to your local bookstore (not even Amazon.com) and buy something that looks good. There are just too many good resources available online, … Continue reading
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Learning Programming, Part One
I jumped into learning Python over the past week or so, and it’s going pretty well, IMO. Although I first started using computers back around 1974, when I was schooled in the rudiments of BASIC on an Altair MITS 8800 … Continue reading
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