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the author

Author of Head First Python

Paul Barry recently worked out that he has been
programming for close to a quarter century, a fact that came
as a bit of a shock. In that time, Paul has programmed in
lots of different programming languages, lived and worked
Paul in two countries on two continents, got married, had three
kids (well…his wife Deirdre actually had them, but Paul was
there), completed a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computing, written or
cowritten three other books, as well as a bunch of technical
articles for Linux Journal (where he’s a Contributing Editor).
When Paul first saw Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML,
he loved it so much he knew immediately that the Head First
approach would be a great way to teach programming. He
was only too delighted then, together with David Griffiths, to
create Head First Programming in an attempt to prove his hunch
correct.

Paul’s day job is working as a lecturer at The Institute of
Technology, Carlow, in Ireland. As part of the Department
of Computing and Networking, Paul gets to spend his day
exploring, learning, and teaching programming technologies
to his students, including Python.
Paul recently completed a post-graduate certificate in
Learning and Teaching and was more than a bit relieved to
discover that most of what he does conforms to current third-
level best practice.

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