President Barack Obama announced today that he has selected Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation's highest honor for achievement in the field of technology, innovation and

Brr, it' autumn time, everyone's back. Our Indian summer was just a dream. And it's also time for this month's newsletter. This month I'll be heading up to Derry to run a Beginners Python workshop as part of CultureTECH. It'

Hope you all enjoyed your long bank holiday weekend? It wasn't a total wash out, the sun is out although setting while I type this. Plus we have some exciting news... We are partnering with GDG (Google Developers Group) Dublin to run a Raspberry Pi Workshop hosted at

It's the 1st of July! Past halfway through the year, and we have many more exciting workshops and events being planned. If you don't know by now, I have re-launched CodingGrace.com. If you are curious, it's written in Django (a Python framework) and

June already, and I hope you all enjoyed your bank holiday break. Where's the annual exam sunshine? /looks outside the window Anyhoo I've some bad news, looks like I won't be running another Raspberry Pi workshop, but I may try and organise a Raspberry

It's May already! And for those who don't know, it was Star Wars Day a couple of days ago... forgot to send newsletter... whoops! And if you are not a Star Wars fan, it's the beginning of summer, woohoo! It's a quiet

Just wanted to follow-up with you, only gotten around doing some house-keeping. I tend to send this monthly, but I missed out on a few people, so this is the same as the previous April newsletter I sent earlier this month. Big thing I want to point out is the

Small update, there was a typo in the April newsletter, the Make a text-based adventure game with Python is on Monday 28th April (18:30-21:00). Since the April newsletter was sent out, three other events have announced that their registration is open: * #weAREhere unFAIL unConference * Galway GameCraft * Dublin GameCraft

With April Fool's behind us, and Easter around the corner, I'm delighted to announce and confirm a few more upcoming workshops. This month will be a quiet month due to the Easter bank holidays, and personal reasons. So I'll give you heads up on

Hope you are enjoying to your nice and "sunny" bank holiday weekend, being excited about the parade and enjoying a pint or two on Paddy's Day (and perhaps do a bit of coding on the side). Plus Ireland's win on Saturday was fantastic! Just