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To the swans on the river Cam. May you never visit the Fellows of St John's College.
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About the Author
CRAIG RICHARDSON is a freelance software developer and writer based in the UK. When Craig first started using computers in his early teens he had a typing speed of one word a minute and successfully broke several machines. Since then he’s studied computer science and software development at school and university and has taught hundreds of people to program with Python. He also now knows how to fix the many computers he breaks.
Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the support of my friends and family. Cambridge Make Space has been invaluable: the reliability of the old Internet connection really helped me finish the book. I’d also like to thank the book’s editors and members of staff at Wiley for their hard work.