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How I learned computing Part I
These days it’s not too hot and humid and I’ve even felt like working several days in a week. It’s been a pretty amazing summer. Today I wanted to tell you about how I got into computing. I’m a...
View ArticleEl Celler de Can Roca – all the food that’s fit to eat
“Did we really just eat for four hours?” I asked, as we polished off the last of four dessert dishes, an arrangement of distinctly-flavored chocolate strips leading to a neat heap of crispy chocolate...
View ArticleWinter.
Winter is a temporal desertland, its enjoyment expanded only by the warmth of communality: air molecules suffused with the aura of hearty food, the heat of others’ being, and the resonating sound of...
View Articleon amazon.
This photo was taken last month, during a sunny Saturday spent hiking in the fields. Around 100 cows and sheep, accompanied by their shepherd, paused to nibble on the leaves from nearby shrubs, the...
View ArticleSummer notes
It’s almost mid-July already. This has just been the loveliest of summers, with everything taking on a calm warmth. I had been traveling a lot (this year so far: Lagos, London, NYC, Blacksburg, a quick...
View ArticleMastering Mobile
It’s 3:30am. The team I’m a member of, The Blue Shakamakas, just won a quiz. I came up with the Shakamakas part of the name: it reminded me of when I was eight or nine, and my younger siblings and I...
View ArticleOut on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad. Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art....
View ArticleHow I learned computing Part II
In my freshman year, I took Intro to Programming, Data Structures, and Computer Fundamentals courses under the Department of Systems & Computer Science. The knowledge from gap-year hours I had...
View ArticleAs Good As A Feast
Put a few hundred teenage girls together in an institute of learning, and there are bound to be some comedic moments. One was how in Yoruba class, a key topic of Yoruba Proverbs would be tested on...
View ArticleHow I learned computing Part III
In addition to IDEs and hitting ‘compile’ or ‘run’, I soon began to be introduced to non-programming aspects of computer science like e-commerce and the attendant web development, web data analytics,...
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