Location: Southeast Alaska My father was a software engineer at DEC in the 70's, so I learned to program at 5 on a kit computer. I've been a hobbyist programme

Location: Southeast Alaska My father was a software engineer at DEC in the 70's, so I learned to program at 5 on a kit computer. I've been a hobbyist programmer all my life, but I got pulled into teaching. I've been teaching 6-12 grade math and science for 20 years. Over the last four years I've started to build a second career in the programming world. I have a couple open source projects that have shown promise, and I recently published an introductory Python book that's doing pretty well. Next Move: I'm excited about the possibilities, all of which are pretty appealing. - Write more. - Pick up development on two main open projects: - introtopython.org | An open introduction to Python based on jupyter notebooks. Anyone familiar with notebooks can contribute a project. - opencompetencies.org | An open platform for building education standards. - Switch to teaching CS full time instead of math and science. - Pick up more freelancing work.