Back in school today. It was nice to have a break but I am looking forward to time with my students today. I got no school work done at all during the week off. I’m going to be paying for that this week though. Well that is life. I did pick up a mini display port to VGA connector from my Surface Pro 3. Now using a second monitor. Productivity will improve. Yeah! And now a few interesting links that I managed to capture over the last week. Some fun ones I think.
Most vulnerable operating systems and applications in 2014 It will come as a surprise to some that Windows is NOT in the worst three. The worst two are from Apple. May spark some interesting conversations.
Level up your programming skills with this FREE introduction to #Python! Get started: http://spr.ly/60170xwS I may try this one out. I need to learn some Python.
Great article about why having the right people develop key libraries for computing. Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it)
I found one link top interesting quotes about programming and remembered I had seen some other collections in the past. I thought I would list some of the best lists here.
- Quotations for Learning and Programming collected by Rich Pattis Perhaps the ultimate collection?
- Eugene Fink's collection of quotes: Computer-science quotes and jokes
- Are these the Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time?
Here is a good way to learn Python. It does not take to long to get started.
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Here is a second way. This is the book I use with my Python class.
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
Top 50 quotes. I have got to make a poster for the wall in my programming classroom.
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