The Art of Doing: Code 40 Challenging Python Programs Today!

Hello, my name is Michael Eramo.  I am an experienced educator, life long learner, and a self–taught programmer.  I hold official Bachelor’s Degrees in Music Industry, Education, and Physics, a Master’s Degree in Mathematical Science, and a certificate in Software Development from Microsoft.  While I owe my extensive knowledge base in Music, Physics, Mathematics, and Education to the many great educators I have worked with, my understanding of Computer Science is all my own.   

I have never taken an official computer science course; I am completely self–taught.  However, do not let that deter you from taking this course!  Instead, let it motivate you that you too can learn anything you want to.  Not only have I done it, but I’ve come to realize what works best for the self–taught programmer, and I have perfected the process!

See, I had this deep fear right after my son was born that I was done growing as an individual; that the person I was at 30 was going to be the same person I was at 55.  I felt that there was literally ZERO time in the day to do anything other than go to work and be a dad.  That is, until I bought a book on Computer Science, and a sense of wonder was woken.  I’ve read countless books, watched hundreds of videos, and put in thousands of hours exploring and writing code.  I would routinely wake up at 3:00 AM to learn for a few hours before I had to go to my full time job, teaching high school, before I went to my part time job of teaching college.  Days were long, but getting up at 3:00 AM to read, to learn, or to code benefited me more than a few extra hours of sleep.  It helped me realize that I was never done learning; never done growing.  To me, that is what defines a life long learner.