Category: Python

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Code School will be Having a Black Friday Special!

CodeSchool logo

I have found Code School to be a great resource both for those just learning to code as well as those who are experienced coders, but want to learn a new programming language. It has multiple paths: Ruby (including Ruby on Rails), JavaScript (includes jQuery and CoffeeScript), HTML/CSS, iOS, Git, and an Electives path for miscellaneous technologies such as R and Chrome DevTools.

The normal price for a subscription at Code School is $29 per month, or $290 per year. However, it appears that they intend to run a Black Friday special for yearly subscriptions. The price will be revealed this Friday. If you don’t already have a subscription, or your subscription is about to run out, this could be a good time to sign up!

Unfortunately, Code School is still lacking Python, though you can learn it at Codecademy (which is free).

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One Year of Blogging at “Deep In The Code”!

cupcake with one year candle

I’ve been writing this blog for just over a year now; my first post was on May 23, 2012. I haven’t written as many articles as I would have liked over the last year, I think due to the fact that I’ve been too selective in what I wrote about (for fear of moving the blog off-topic) and some of the articles have been too long. I will endeavor to write shorter, but more frequent articles for the second year of this blog!

I enjoy the feedback I get (when it’s not spam) as it tells me if I’m writing about something that people care about, so please continue writing back!

My goals from last year never fully materialized, as I intended to learn OS X / iOS / Objective-C programming when I bought my MacBook Pro last year. While I did dip into the pool of Xcode programming, it was only a shallow dip. Instead, I have focused more on learning open source technologies – mostly Python and Ruby on Rails. Once I get a handle on these two, I intend to revisit iOS programming – though I may end up using RubyMotion instead of Objective-C. Only time will tell!

Thanks for reading my blog, and please feel free to make suggestions on what you would like to read about in the future!