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		<title>&#8220;Invent with Python&#8221; Available in Print on Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 2nd Edition, is now available in print on Amazon.com: Buy &#8220;Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python&#8221; on Amazon.com Of course, the book will still be available online, in full, for free under a Creative Commons license. If you like the book, but don&#8217;t/can&#8217;t buy the print version, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Let BASIC Die.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’d like to hear a boring but heart-warming story, ask a geek about how they learned programming. It’s like the opposite of trolling: you can instantly provoke tearfully-joyous nostalgia out of programmer strangers on the Internet by making this inquiry. Most of these stories will include some form of a programming language called BASIC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness&#8221; by Alva Noe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, but ultimately disappointing and unconvincing. (2 out of 5 stars) Noe avoids mystical explanations and the supernatural. He doesn&#8217;t put forth souls or the vague appeals to quantum mechanics that are the hallmarks of new age quackery. And while he skates close, he doesn&#8217;t present consciousness as just merely a postmodern social construction. “Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Writing a Technical Book to Teach Programming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 2008 to 2009, I wrote a book called “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” ( http://inventwithpython.com ) which guides young adults and complete beginners through learning how to program in the Python language. I’ve just completed the second edition of the book, which has been an exhausting amount of work. Looking back over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem that I wrote that any geek with grand project ideas can relate to. (By the way, I&#8217;ve finally settled on Django as the framework for my next web app. Maybe with SQLAlchemy. Or not. Or maybe I&#8217;ll do it in LISP instead. Or Haskell. Or Erlang. Either way, I still need to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing a book geared towards teaching Python programming to kids. Here is the book project&#8217;s main page. I&#8217;ll make new posts as significant parts of the book are completed. Here are some quick links: Cover Table of Contents Chapter 1 &#8211; Introduction Chapter 2 &#8211; &#8220;Hello World!&#8221; &#8211; Your First Program Chapter 3 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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