My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning Python to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do not really understand the music theory, but that is what he told me), and he seems to really like it. -Arlo James Barnes
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Mainly folks who did not start out programming for the sake of > programming, but were led to it indirectly. > > Possibly better: their first use of computers was not programming. I.e. > they did not have to use programming languages in the course work or job, > but were self-motivated via, for example, building plug-ins for games or > wordpress. > > -- Owen > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Joshua Thorp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Which was the second generation of programmers? >> >> >> On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >> >> Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the >> structure of the class. >> >> That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation >> of programmers got into programming via games. >> >> http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 >> >> >> Education, is you getting sweet? >> >> -- Owen >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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