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Written by David Beazley on 2024-12-20 at 14:35

Last day of teaching for 2024. I'm truly fortunate that people come to my small little corner of the world to learn. I'm not trying to scale, form a cult of influence, or go on a mission to change education. Just trying to get better at programming and problem solving with anyone who wants to join me. Onward to 2025!

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Written by David Beazley on 2024-12-21 at 13:56

My last day reminded me of how freeing it is to not teach on a rigid bell schedule. Someone asks, "can we talk about linking?" This leads to an impromptu 30-40 minute discussion involving operating systems, libraries, system calls, static linking, dynamic linking, shared libraries, dynamic loading, memory organization, and even a bit of security concerns. Wait, where were we? Oh yeah, compilers. Let's get back to that now.

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Written by David Beazley on 2024-12-21 at 14:09

As opposed to constantly watching a classroom clock with anxiety.... tick tick tick. Ding. Goodbye. Don't forget to turn your brain off as you leave.

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Written by Siraaj Khandkar on 2024-12-20 at 14:39

@dabeaz I'm looking forward to when you can pull off an in-person compiler/interpreter in Rust course!

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Written by David Beazley on 2024-12-21 at 14:17

@xand Sadly, I'm not really sure if in-person is ever going to return. It was already on its way out (generally across the entire training world) before the pandemic. I was only able to manage it because I could keep costs low with my own space (which is no longer the case).

Post-pandemic, costs have also soared a LOT. I just don't know if there are that many people who can afford to drop a week of work and spend an additional $6-8K on a training class.

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Written by Siraaj Khandkar on 2024-12-27 at 19:13

@dabeaz Man, that is disappointing to hear, but does make sense.

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Written by Marc Maset on 2024-12-20 at 15:02

@dabeaz got into python in no small part thanks to your videos and books - thank you 👊 And looking forward to join another one of your courses in 2025!

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