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Hugh Lofting
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Hugh Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative...
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Max Wainewright
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After learning to code as a child I decided to study further and completed a Computer Science Degree at University in the UK. Following this I decided to train as a primary/elementary school teacher. I taught in the UK and in Singapore. After spending many years developing educational software for fun, I co-founded 2Simple Software in 2000. After many years of developing software, growing the company and working with some fabulous people I sold my part of the business in 2011.Since then I've divided my working life in three ways. I teach, I write software and I write books.At the moment I teach Coding in a London...
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