Episode 142: David Kopec - Classic Computer Science Problems in Python

Olá pessoal e sejam bem-vindos à mais um episódio do Castálio Podcast!

Our guest for today's episode is an assistant professor of Computer Science
and Innovation at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of
Dart for Absolute Beginners
(Apress, 2014), Classic Computer Science Problems in
Swift
(Manning, 2018) and, the recently released, Classic Computer Science Problems
in
Python
(Manning, 2019). Also he is active in the open source community as the author
of several popular Swift data structure projects. It is with a great pleasure
that we welcome David Kopec to our podcast.

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We talked about these topics

How David started on the programming world?
How he discovered and started using
Python?
What is computer science and what brought his attention to it?
What made David decide to write a book?
How was the process of writing the books? What technologies were
used?
What is the Classic Computer Science Problems in Python book
expected audience?
Which computer science problems are available on the book?
What chapter was more challenging to write?
Why David decide to write the book targeting Python 3.7?
Are there any real world examples in the book?
Has David decided on what the next book will be in classic computer
science problems series?
What is SeaTurtle? What are
some of the coolest projects he has seen people do with it?

Giveaway

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chance to win one free e-book copy of the Classic Computer Science Problems in
Python
by David Kopec. The form will be open until June 24th, 2019 and we will be
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