Programming for All!

Yesterday I started a new class on Coursera. I have completed one class there and signed up for a few others that I ended up not either not having time or deciding they weren't what I wanted. Honestly, even the class I finished didn't turn out to be what I had expected. (Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World ended up being a little more overview and a little less constitutional law than I was looking for, but it was a good class.)

The current class is called Programming for Everybody (Python) and I had a lot of fun messing around today, figuring where my computer hid my Desktop files, getting it to run a one line program.

Two line program.

I'm a little worried that the lectures will be boring, since "I already read this!" But I hope to improve my computer skills and figure out if I like this programming thing at all. We history (political science) majors can use all the "special skills" we can get.