How much could you learn about computing and programming through playing games? How much, specifically, could you learn by playing games available through steam that will run on a 3-year old laptop running ubuntu? This is the question I have set out to discover the answer to. I will note here at the top that I’ve not played all of these games in great depth, so I might be missing aspects of the later stages of the games. Read more

Over the past couple of years I’ve taught myself programming and data science. I’d been at a big computer nerd and at least programming-nerd-adjacent for a long time (linux user since 2005, emacs users since 2011) but in 2020 I made a conscious decision to pursue learning to code as part of a plan to find an alternative career. Over the past couple of years I’ve tried out quite a few different resources for learning programming and data science. Read more