689th Friday Blog Roundup
Hey. Maybe you’ve been thinking that you want to learn programming basics; things like conditionals, variables, or arrays. Or maybe you have a kid, and you want them to learn how to program. Or maybe you’re staring down summer, wondering how you are going to fill the brains in your household. Or maybe you’re a teacher looking for something to recommend students. Let’s just leave it at that there are a lot of scenarios where you will be happy with the following news.
The twins’ book is the deal of the day over on the Manning site beginning at midnight tonight and running all day Saturday. Ta da! If you click on that link right now, you are going to see other books. But if you click Saturday morning, you will see their happy little programming-for-beginners book on sale.
Please help them pass along word via your social channels. Post it on Facebook, email it to a friend, post it on your school listserv.
They will answer any questions that pop up as you (or the person you recommended it to) reads the book. Just send them my way, and I’ll make sure they answer. So it’s like ordering a book AND getting your own, personal programming tutor. You can’t beat that, right?
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It’s Friday the 13th. I don’t know why I have a compulsive need to always point that out when the Roundup falls on the 13th.
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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.
As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.
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And now the blogs…
But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- “Squawk Box: Infertility was the Easy Part” (Unpregnant Chicken)
- “An Easter Note to Self” (Infertilityhonesty)
- “Sitting and Thinking” (The Barrenness)
Okay, now my choices this week.
Torthúil is writing a series of posts for her five year blogoversary, and the first looks at the last five years through the lens of her fertility clinic. It’s not a happy place, though she lists a good memory or two. “I was trying to think the other day if I have any happy memories whatsoever of The Fertility Clinic. There’s really only one, and that was when I picked up my drugs for IVF.” It’s precious, as she says at the end, to have a blog and all of the memories from the past five years contained in one place.
A Dozen Years has a post about the prenatal depression. She is currently pregnant after infertility, and she writes about her struggle with depression during the first trimester. She explains that she was already prone for depression and coming into pregnancy from a stressful period. “That combination of traits makes me a pretty likely candidate for something called Prenatal Depression. An obvious diagnosis with a pretty unmistakable meaning. And I had crashed head-on into it.” This post should be required reading, and I’m so glad she’s doing better.
Lastly, Anabegins writes about the realization that she has changed over the years, despite thinking at first that it was just appearances that were different. She’s not the same person that she was six years ago. I love the moment that it dawns on her: “But even being able to articulate what I am working on is a huge HUGE step forward from the constant chaos of anxiety and overwhelm I was dealing with back then.” It’s a great post about pausing and reflecting on the ways you have changed over the years.
The roundup to the Roundup: The twins’ book is the deal of the day on the Manning site. It’s Friday the 13th. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between April 6th and 13th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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Oooh. I’m going to tell my school about the deal of the day over at Manning. And share elsewhere, too!
OOh, checking out the twins book. And THANKS for reading & promoting. I have to get better about writing…
I do want my sons to learn programming! They are only 6, but this is probably a good opportunity for me to buy your kids’ book to give to them in a year or two. I will spread the word, too!
1. That’s awesome! What an amazing thing for the twins! I’ll be considering their book as a gift, and mentioning it to a couple people who I think may be interested in reading it.
2. I actually had to come back to comment because I saw my post featured and immediately started bawling. And then laughing. And then crying again. Either way, thank you so much! It means a lot that the post resonated with you (and anyone else that it may resonate with)!
I will definitely look for the twins’ book. I’ve been thinking about giving it to my niece. She’s almost ten, so perhaps the right age.
John would love this, but he has to learn to read first! It’s on my wish list to pick up in a couple of years.
Aw thanks! Now I’ll have to make sure I write more blogoversary posts. Shouldn’t be hard I do déjà vu really well. Enjoying all the blogs.
I shared about the book! And I will share at school, too — I don’t have a ton of code-minded kids this year, but I had kids last year who were super into it and one comes to visit regularly. I can also share with our robotics team! 🙂
I loved this post from Not My Lines Yet: https://notmylinesyet.blogspot.com/2018/04/microblog-mondays-emperor-has-no-tea.html