The second edition of my book was just published and available at the source and on Amazon. To purchase, just click one of the links in the sidebar!
Also, I’ll be writing up a new article to be published on here this weekend, so look forward to that!
It’s been a crazy year for me. Loads of excitement and disappointment all around. First off, in July 2016, I lost my job at my first real programming gig due to cutbacks. Luckily, I had saved up about 3 months worth of minimal living expenses, and besides that, I had paid off my credit cards enough to use them for extra cushion. I got a temporary job with Best Buy for about a month starting in mid-late December 2016 until mid January 2017 helping out with delivery and installs of home theater equipment. This was nice, as it got me up to date on what’s available in the market, but it really did not last long. Continue Reading
Yeah, I did it again; I went several weeks (more than a month!) without posting anything. This time, it’s not laziness, I promise 🙂
I started a new book! This book will be on how design patterns evolve when functional programming (specifically first class functions and lambdas) mix in with an object-oriented language. I’ve already got several chapters written!
I also got a new job! I’ve been pretty much unemployed (and underemployed) since July of last year (so, for over a year now), but I finally found a job! It’s an exciting opportunity, but I have to move 2.5 hours away, so a lot of my life will also be devoted to getting ready for that.
I have a few blog posts planned out for you guys, and maybe I’ll get to them soon, but don’t expect anything before I’m done settling in, early in September.
Lastly, I’d like to get my spare book copies out, so I’ll just go with the simplest way to get rid of them: ask for them in the comments! I have 8 left. Just comment below, include your email address, and I’ll contact you privately to get your shipping details. This is first-come-first-serve.
Sorry about being terrible at keeping up to date with my blog; Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is partially to blame, but it’s still all my fault 🙂 Even this new post isn’t a proper post.
I just wanted to make sure as many people as possible have heard about the latest Humble Bundle! At the $1+ level, you get Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (a pretty decent book; I’ve looked through it), Doing Math with Python, Teach Your Kids to Code, and the No Starch Sampler (No Starch Press is the publisher of most, if not all the books in the bundle). At the $8+ level, there’s Gray Hat Python, Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer, and Python for Kids. In the final, $15+ level, you get Black Hat Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python, and Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming.
This is a crazy deal, since most of these books are worth more than $10 individually. PLUS, the money you pay can be divided however you like between No Starch Press, HumbleBundle.com, and the Python Software Foundation! I focused mostly on supporting the PSF, but made sure to share some with the other two as well. I hope many of you go and purchase some level of this bundle and help support Python and Python publishers!
Some of you may know that Apress contacted me a little bit ago, wanting to publish my book under their brand. Well all the work is done now, and the book is up for sale on their web site, and soon it will be up on Amazon!
So go add the book to your wish lists!
Thanks for all your support, everyone. If I didn’t have a decent following, I’m not sure I would have written the book in the first place.
P.S. My second video is recorded. I just need to do some editing, and it will be put up soon.
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