Don Watkins (He/Him/His)

16903 points

Franklinville, New York

Educator, entrepreneur, open source advocate, life long learner, Python teacher. M.A. in Educational Psychology, M.S. Ed. in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator.

Open Source Star People's Choice Award Social Sharer Award 2014 Conversation Starter Award 2015 Best Interview Award 2016 Best Interview Award 2017 Moderator's Choice Award 2018 Moderator's Choice Award 2019 Author Comment Gardener Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

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Top 5: Mining cryptocurrency, building games with Python, and more

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Toonz goes open source, Apple open sources CareKit, and more news

Mozilla's new voice recognition model, fixing the GPL, and more news

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Top 5: Linux laptop giveaway, resources for learning JavaScript, and more

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Top 5: Politics of the Linux desktop, learning Python with Pygame, and more

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Linux dominates supercomputing, the Pentagon's big open source push, and more

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Top 5: Building great CLIs, an open source 2D gaming engine, and more

Top 5: Learning Python, analyzing Linux performance with bcc/BPF, and more

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Authored Comments

Don Watkins

4 May 2021

Why I support systemd's plan to take over the world

Wow! David your scholarship is amazing. I have learned once again from reading this article.

Don Watkins

3 May 2021

Learn the Lisp programming language in 2021

I'm always learning something new from you. Did you know that the Logo computer language which was developed by Seymour Papert and others is an adaptation of Lisp? I remember my brother telling me that when I was trying to use Logo in the late 1980's in my classroom.