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Software Freedom Day 2009
The 2009 Software Freedom Day (SFD) took place on Saturday 19th September. The Linux Users of Victoria group organized the celebration at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. I have uploaded some photos taken during the day to picasa. Brianna Laugher has uploaded more photos. Here’s a news item at iTWire about the SFD celebration in [...]
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These are notes of a talk I delivered during Software Freedom Day 2009 at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Slides are also available. This talk requires no previous experiences with programming. After covering some basic principles of programming, these principles are then demonstrated using the Python programming language.
What’s a program?
When you start programming, you are [...]
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The Summer That Was…
If you’re wondering what I was doing during the Australian 2008/2009 summer, I’m happy to report that I was hanging around at the Melbourne branch of CSIRO’s Mathematical and Information Sciences division. I met new people and had the chance to play with one of CSIRO’s compute cluster (woo hoo!). During that summer, over one [...]
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