About

This is where we explain what’s up with the whole Binary Dolphin blog thing. This blog is about coding, software engineering, computer science, technology and society, computational thinking, and using computational approaches to understand the world around us.

If that’s not enough information for you, you’re probably related to me. You can also read the inaugural blog post

Site Credits

(Although a page like this is sometimes called a Colophon, this is NOT a Colophon).

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