Dear nmglugers, This week I will start teaching mini-courses during the glug meetings. First course will be a primer on plotting and manipulating data files in Python. My 10-hour Python courses are a big part of how I get kids to use GNU/Linux systems, and these new follow-on mini-courses (which will runn from 6:15pm for approx. 1.5 hours) are to keep the momentum going for good principled computing. I will probably often get 2 or 1 or 0 students, and I will often also be able to be glug-ish with y'all. Below is the announcement I sent to the "alumni" of my course: ------------- --> Subject: small mini-courses to add to the "serious programming" course Dear students and parents, I have been putting together a series of small courses that can be taught in a one or one-and-a-half hour session and which can be taken flexibly. These courses are aimed at teaching how to use computer programming to enhance the math and science curriculum in middle and high school. Some mini-courses will go into straight programming and media, like audio and video manipulation. I will be teaching these courses on alternating Thursday evenings (for example, I will do one this week, tomorrow!) Not every alternating Thursday, but I will announce it when I do. Time/place will be 6:15pm at Warehouse 21, though the specific starting time might change. I will announce the starting time. The format is "come when you can": you do not have to commit; drop in if it works for you. Each topic will be different, but we will repeat some of them. In particular, the "plotting and data files" will be a prerequisite for most others. So if you can make it, please show up this Thursday, 2017-04-13, with your GNU/Linux laptop and we will begin with a mini-course on plotting and data files.