Warren Gay
Warren Gay
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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ISBN 978-1-4842-3623-9
e-ISBN 978-1-4842-3624-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3624-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018945101
© Warren Gay 2018
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Warren Gay started out in electronics at an early age, dragging discarded TVs and radios home from public school. In high school he developed a fascination for programming the IBM 1130 computer, which resulted in a career-plan change to software development. Since graduating from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, he has enjoyed a 30-plus-year software developer career, programming mainly in C/C++. Warren has been programming Linux since 1994 as an open source contributor and professionally on various Unix platforms since 1987.
Before attending Ryerson, Warren built an Intel 8008 system from scratch before there were CP/M systems and before computers got personal. In later years, Warren earned an advanced amateur radio license (call sign VE3WWG) and worked the amateur radio satellites. A high point of his ham-radio hobby was making digital contact with the Mir space station (U2MIR) in 1991.
Warren works at Datablocks.net, an enterprise-class ad-serving software services company where he programs C++ server solutions on Linux back-end systems.
Stewart Watkiss is a keen maker with a particular interest in physical computing. He earned a master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Hull in 1996 and a master’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017.
Most of his projects are based around the Raspberry Pi, which he creates alone or together with his two children. He has also created projects based around the Arduino and other platforms. Many of his projects are available on his website, www.penguintutor.com , which also provides tutorials on Linux and electronics. He is the author of the book Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi , published by Apress.
Stewart also volunteers as a STEM Ambassador, working with local schools and educational events to enthuse children about programming and physical computing.
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