Location: Southeast Alaska<p>My father was a software engineer at DEC in the 70&#x27;s, so I learned to program at 5 on a kit computer. I&#x27;ve been a hobbyist programmer all my life, but I got pulled into teaching. I&#x27;ve been teaching 6-12 grade math and science for 20 years.<p>Over the last four years I&#x27;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&#x27;s doing pretty well.<p>Next Move: I&#x27;m excited about the possibilities, all of which are pretty appealing.<p>- Write more.<p>- Pick up development on two main open projects:<p>- introtopython.org | An open introduction to Python based on jupyter notebooks. Anyone familiar with notebooks can contribute a project.<p>- opencompetencies.org | An open platform for building education standards.<p>- Switch to teaching CS full time instead of math and science.<p>- Pick up more freelancing work.