Living Code

Living Code is Dethe's blog for talking about code, life, and all the rest.

Black Lives Matter. Defund the police. Free Gaza. End all Genocides.

Dethe Elza • Feb 20, 2008 • 11 min read

The importance of visual programming

Kudzu flower manipulated with NodeBox Python has a well-earned reputation for being easy to use and to learn, at least for people who have learned programming in other languages first. Lately my kids have been very interested in programming, and I’ve found that Python doesn’t come as easily to 6-11 year olds as it does to adult programmers.  Read →

Dethe Elza • Apr 17, 2007 • 1 min read

Announcing Kinzin

1970 Well, I’m not the first on the team to blog this, but at least I can explain a bit why my blog has been so quiet for the past few months: we’ve been working really hard to get Kinzin launched. And last Tuesday, we did it.  Read →

Dethe Elza • Feb 1, 2007 • Less than a minute read

VanDjangoJam

The next Vancouver Python users’ group meeting will have a special guest: Adrian Holovaty, lead developer for the Django web framework. The meeting will be on Tuesday, February 6th from 7-9 pm, hosted by Sophos at their Vancouver office.  Read →