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Project Euler Project Euler is a web site with hundreds of problems for you to tackle however you want to solve them. Some of them, if y...

If you aren't much interested in writing software, this post is probably not for you. If you read the post without following the links ...

If you've been following this blog, you're aware that I feel unprepared to make good use of the Object Oriented Programming facilit...

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Background Back in May, 2013, I posted " Cheap, but not Free, Modular Code has a Price ". In that blog article I compared the p...

Linus Torvalds in this less than 3 minute video clip gives a great answer to a question about teaching children how to write computer code....

1980 In the Introduction talk to Udacity CS101 , Professor Evans mentions Steve Jobs having compared computers to "bicycles for the mi...

Say What? News photo of an experimental self-driving Volvo from Engadget report . Computer procesors show up almost everywhere these da...

What's the fuss about parallel programming? A young friend of mine, now a 2nd year computer engineering student, asked me: What is ...

A recent posting by +Luke Plant to the Google+ Python community about the importance of PEP-8 reminded me that for quite a while now I...

One of the interesting computer science topics that Udacity CS101 introduces is "recursion". Recursion is where you define a fu...