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I wasn't smart enough to learn a computer language like Python - until I got smart about how to learn it.I was smart enough to earn an honors degree in philosophy from Harvard, but an aptitude test told me to avoid computer programming. I'm sure it was right. But then I designed a learning system for myself that quadrupled my aptitude for learning computer languages. It worked so well for me that I've used it to teach coding to grandmothers, cab drivers, musicians, and 50,000 other newbies."Mark Myers' method of getting what can be...difficult information into a format that makes it exponentially easier to consume, truly understand, and synthesize into real-world application is beyond anything I've encountered before." - Amazon reviewer Jason A.
About the Author
A few years ago I set out to teach myself Web development by reading programming books. It was such a struggle that I decided I must have lost some learning ability over the years. Then it hit me... I wasn't a bad learner. The books were bad teachers! I fought my way through a dozen books, and by brute effort, learned to build websites. But I had to design exercises for myself. Without practice, I couldn't retain anything.
Coding, I learned, isn't that hard. The books make it hard. So I set out to write books that make learning to code easy. And, since exercises are the only way to make the knowledge stick, I've created, for each book, more than a thousand free interactive exercises online.
I'm a former lecturer in the Communications School of Boston University. I hold an A.B. from Harvard. My professional focus is on using simple language and interactive exercises to reduce the effort and tedium of learning. I run the website http://www.ASmarterWayToLearn.com.
Along with my wife Judy and our two politically-active cats, I live in Taos, NM, where I code for fun, cook under the ghostly supervision of Marcella Hazan, read extensively, and play showboat frisbee once a week.
