About the Author
Gareth Dwyer rst heard the phrase, "behind every no-entry sign there is a door,"
a couple of decades ago, and he has been looking for a counterexample ever since.
He hasn't found one yet. Gareth grew up with his three siblings in Grahamstown,
South Africa. There wasn't much there except some highly respected schools and
a small university. Gareth had heard that school was an unpleasant and largely
pointless experience, so he opted to skip it and go to the university instead. The
university door had a no-entry sign on the door because it only accepted people who
had gone to school. Gareth ignored the sign. He studied piano for a while but soon,
he wondered if there was more to life than sitting in front of a keyboard all day. So
he switched from piano to computer science, and it took him a while to realize the
irony. He studied philosophy too because it was here that people never told him to
stop being so argumentative.
Gareth noticed the disparagement that his philosophy and computer science
departments felt towards each other, and he found it strange. He soon discovered
that he wasn't the rst person to see that there was room for some common ground,
and he went to Europe to study computational linguistics, where he found other
people who liked debating the ner points of language while talking about the three
hardest problems of computer science (naming things, and off-by-one errors).
In between doodling on blank paper while listening to very knowledgeable people
lecture on content that was occasionally fascinating but often soporic, Gareth
has gained so-called "industry" experience with companies such as Amazon Web
Services in Cape Town and MWR InfoSecurity in Johannesburg. He has several
years' experience in writing, and his favorite languages are English and Python.
He discovered that writing and writing a book are not fully overlapping experiences,
and the former is hardly preparation for the latter. The pages that follow would not
have come into existence without the combined efforts of many people.
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