1. Try, try again

    So the "re-reading K&R" book thing got side-tracked again. This time around life happened again and I got side-tracked with the other things that took precedence. But the one thing that I would like to be my constant companion is the willingness to keep trying and keep at things …

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  2. Re-reading K&R

    I think for the month of March I'm going to try an experiment. Something that I've long wanted to do, but something that has gone by the wayside more often than not.

    I'm going to read through Kernighan and Ritchie's classic book "The C Programming Language".

    I liken this to …

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  3. Comfort Code

    Last week I found myself doing something I haven't done in a while.

    For some reason I got it in my head that I needed some comfort. And part of that comfort was re-learning the C language. Now, I have no immediate reason to learn C. None of my job …

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  4. Writing a Snake Game in Pygame

    I'm mulling over making a quick series on how to write a "snake" game in Pygame. Part of this is because I've been stalled on writing this down in the book about Pygame and game development / design and I'm thinking this may be an approach to uncork the bottle of …

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  5. Left behind

    Feeling a little left behind at the moment. Checking job sites will do that for you.

    Most of the jobs that I'm seeing have moved beyond scripting for the day-to-day work and use it as administrative glue. So Python / Perl are seen as the tools for making sure the backed …

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