Craig Oda

121 points

Palo Alto, California

First elected president and co-founder of Tokyo Linux Users Group. Co-author of "Linux Japanese Environment" book published by O'Reilly Japan. Part of core team that established first ISP in Asia. Former VP of product management and product marketing for major Linux company. Partner at Oppkey, developer relations consulting firm in Silicon Valley.

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Authored Content

3 cool machine learning projects using TensorFlow and the Raspberry Pi

Why Python and Pygame are a great pair for beginning programmers

We look at three reasons Pygame is a good choice for learning to program.

Build a VR web application in 15 minutes

In 15 minutes, you can develop a virtual reality application and run it in a web browser, on a VR headset, or with Google Daydream. The key is A-Frame, an open source toolkit…

Authored Comments

codetricity

17 Nov 2017

5 open source fonts ideal for programming

What a great topic. I'm going to start using some of these fonts right now. Thanks for putting this together.

codetricity

5 Sep 2017

5 open source Python GUI frameworks

Kivy is a great framework and is also great on tablet and mobile devices. The one downside is that it's a bit tough for middle school kids. I did some lessons using pygame and Simple Game Code for my son a while back. SGC is simple, as the name states. Also, Pygame isn't intended for GUI applications. The upside is that pygame is simple to use, even for elementary school kids. Leveraging knowledge from Pygame to introduce GUI fundamentals with SGC is useful. The combination might also be good for simple prototypes. More information here: http://pychildren.blogspot.com/search/label/sgc