John Clark Craig's books range from programming titles published by Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Media, to e-Stereograms for your Kindle, sun position algorithms for solar energy, and various other topics such as creating passive income. This blog is about side thoughts on all these topics, and much more.
Python is a very popular programming language, and yes, I've jumped on that bandwagon. Big time! Visual Basic was "my hammer" for everything programming-wise, until a few short years ago when I decided to check out Python a little closer. I've never turned back since.
A few years ago I wrote to Satya Nadella at Microsoft, expressing my concern that magazines and scientific journals that used to publish short BASIC language programs to explain computational insights on a myriad of subjects were no longer printing code snippets, simply because programming has gotten much more complicated. Software development has become an art and a skill unto itself, with insider jargon and lingo for each popular language. I asked Satya to consider an updated, easy to learn, universal ver