Bill Turkel and Alan MacEachern’s new book – The Programming Historian, in the form of a wiki – is now officially up. Bill was kind enough to let me be involved in peer reviewing it, and while I’m a programming novice I’ve found it very easy to pick up. Thoroughly recommended, do check it out. I’ll be blogging more about my experience of learning the basics of Python via the book’s tutorial once I have a bit more time and have finished moving house…
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7 May 2008 at 9:04 am
Madman Magot « Gilbert Mabbott
[...] my update for today. I hope it’s not too cryptic. My thanks to Mercurius Politicus for his latest post. It’s on programming. I may not use it, but I’m glad someone is putting together [...]