So since I already complained about what I hate about tech from a diversity and culture perspective, I felt I needed to explain all the things I love about tech and why I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
Everyone would expect me to start with databases or virtualization, but I thought I’d keep everyone on their toes and start with my favorite programming language- PYTHON!
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Let’s face it: education without interaction is about as effective as shouting origami instructions at a lumberjack who is cutting down trees. Sure, your informative lessons will come in handy when the product of their work finally becomes paper, but it will be long forgotten and ultimately worthless by then.
So one of the things I like to do is test out a lot of my python gaming code, (as far as for the coding and syntax) on my Oracle Virtualbox image of my Raspberry Pi. Another great thing about building games on the Raspberry Pi, is a built in module called Pygame.
Back on August 7th, the RMOUG’s Quarterly Education Workshop, I walked everyone through using a Pibrella board to create an art or flyer project that was powered with a python script and a motor.
So I don’t doubt that many parents are bleeding out money for kid’s school fees, supplies, clothing and other demands this time of year. How many of you are in their local Target, Walmart or other store and after filling the cart with the necessary, the kids eye up the toy aisle and start to ask for something?
There’s an old joke about the evolution of a programmer. It starts with the programmer in their infancy and typing:
Print “Hello World” and so the output returns:
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