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Letter to a young programmer

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Re: Letter to a young programmer

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When I taught Python to my kid and a few other kids that live around my house a coupl of years ago, Guido was gracious enough to sign these head-shots for me to give to each kids as their graduation present. https://plus.google.com/photos/108306457281321389001/albums/...

I'm not sure what to make of that. It feels both nice and oddly narcissistic at the same time. I'm not that familiar with Guido though, maybe I just don't understand his style.

It's Python humour.

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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post #11
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what to make of that. It feels both nice and oddly narcissistic at the same time. I'm not that familiar with Guido though, maybe I just don't understand his style.

It's Python humour.

Thanks, that makes more sense :)

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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As a young programmer, I cannot be more lucky than this. Right now, you can learn virtually any programming language (such as Python), online, so the fact that I'm not old enough to get a college degree doesn't matter.

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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When I taught Python to my kid and a few other kids that live around my house a coupl of years ago, Guido was gracious enough to sign these head-shots for me to give to each kids as their graduation present. https://plus.google.com/photos/108306457281321389001/albums/...

Wow those kids look really young, what did they make?

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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Very nice to see a blog post with this headline that isn't full of sarcasm or finger-wagging or self praise. It was a good reminder to me that positive messages, simply put, are worth the little time it takes to write them. I need to keep more of my own rants in my drafts folder. :-) Thanks Guido!

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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post #14

As a young programmer, I cannot be more lucky than this. Right now, you can learn virtually any programming language (such as Python), online, so the fact that I'm not old enough to get a college degree doesn't matter.

And before then, we had the public library! Good ole ANSI C FTW

Re: Letter to a young programmer

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When I taught Python to my kid and a few other kids that live around my house a coupl of years ago, Guido was gracious enough to sign these head-shots for me to give to each kids as their graduation present. https://plus.google.com/photos/108306457281321389001/albums/...

Can't see the photo on mobile - Google tries to push some download, then muffs up the URL, resulting in a 404.
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