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Object-Oriented Programming in Python
This course at Datacamp moved me up a level in my Python programming skills, using Object-Oriented Programming. Continue reading
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Writing Functions in Python
This course, done on Datacamp in conjunction with Masterschool introduced me to writing simple code in Python, a step up from the basic level of computer programming. Continue reading
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Review: Our Man in Havana – by Graham Greene
Graham Greene delivers here a classic espionage novel, fiction, set in Cuba around the time of the revolution, Greene writes in his knowledgeable subject area of expertise a comedy account of a chance vacuum salesman being recruited by Mi6 as their ‘Man in Havana.’ Struggling lone parent Wormold runs a little enterprising vacuum franchise and… Continue reading
assassination, Beatrice, British Government, Captain Segura, caribbean, Cold War espionage, Comedy, Communism, Communist, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dr Hasselbacher, farce, FUBAR, gambit, German, Graham Greene, Havana, Intelligence swervice, Jamaica, London, mi6, mi6 agent, Mi6 officer, Our Man in Havana, romance, Russia, secret service, secretary, Sierra, Soviet Union, Spy SIS, U.K., United Kingdom, vacuum cleaners, Wormald, Wormold -
Review: War and Peace – by Leo Tolstoy
‘War and Peace’ needs no introduction. It holds its place in the minds of contemporary society as a literary classic. One cannot pick up a newspaper article on great books without a passing mention of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Like other classical works such as the Bible, I think that their obvious fame means and their… Continue reading
1789, Adolf Hitler, Anna Karenina, Artitocracy, Austerlitz, battle of austerlitz, battle of borodino, Bezukhov, Bolkonsky, Bolshevik, Borodino, Bourgeoisie, Communism, Communist, Count, CrimeaN WAR, Czar, Denisov, dictator, Dostoyevsky, eating horses, enlioghtenment, European, fiction, France, French revolution, Grande Armée, history, hitler, Homer, Iliad, imperialism, Kulak, Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Little Corsican, Military, Moscow, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Naqzi, Natalya, Natalya Rostov, nationalism, non-fiction, Odyssey, old Boney, on mutatis, Paris, peace, Pierre, Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Andrei, Prince Andrei Nikolayovich Bolkonsky, Red Army, romance, Rostov, Rousseau, Rus, Russia, Russian, Russian Aristocracy, Russian Literature, russian revolution, serfs, society, Soviet Union, St Petersburg, Stalin, Steppes, Tolstoy, Translation, translator, Trotsky, Tsar, Tsar Alexander I, USSR, Voltaire, war, War and Peace, World War 2 -
Review: Black Genesis – The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt – by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy
I’m a big fan of Robert Bauval’s work. I have been an avid reader of his writing since I first encountered the seminal ‘The Orion Mystery’ several decades ago. He is a deep, intelligent author that tests a reader’s intelligence and as an unorthodox, archaeo-astronomer that revisits and questions mainstream archaeology he often gives a… Continue reading
Africa, Africans, Ancient Egypt, ancient history, aRCHAEOASTRONOMY, Bagnold, Bagnold Circle, Black Africa, Black Genesis, Black people, Desert, desert explorer, Dog Star, Egypt, Egyptian Sahara, egyptology, Geography, Gilf Kebir, Giza, Great Pyramid, Great Spjinx, Ham, Hamites, Jebel Uwainat, Keeper of Genesis, Mummies, Nabtya Playa, Noah, precession of the equinoxes, Queen's shaft, R A Bagmold, race, Robert Bauval, Sahara, Sand dunes, Sirius, Sothis, Stars, The Orion Mystery, Thomas Brophy, UCL, Wester Desert, zep tepi -
Typing Intermediate Unit
Moving on abd up a level, this intermediate unit from typing.com was a bit more complicated but I’m still maintaing good progress and levels of accuracy and speed. Continue reading
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Typing Intermediate Assessment
This was moving up a level on the typing and I completed the Intermediate Assessment with a decnet score of 15 words per minute with 97% accuracy. Continue reading
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Typing Beginner Assessment
This was the first assessment I had on the typing course for the Wez G – Four Four Cyber cybersecurity business. . Starting to make progress, a nice 98% accuracy and 12WPM. Continue reading
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Typing Beginner Unit
Learning about #cybersecurity on the Masterschool course, requires us to be able to use computers as effectively as possible and one skill that coders need to be adept at, seems simple and obvious, but can’t really be taken for granted. At Typing.com we were enrolled and signed up to do their courses and to hopefully… Continue reading
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Masterschool’s Intro to Programming TF101.2
This was the second level of an introduction to computer programming Udacity course, ran in conjunction with Masterschool. Continue reading
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