The Usual Stuff
Swaroop C H is 25 years of age.
He graduated in B.E. (Computer Science) from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India in 2004.
He has previously worked in the Flex Engineering team at Adobe India and as the engineer for the Buzz Index at Yahoo! Bangalore.
Okay, so what else has he done? Read on.
2003
During his college days, Swaroop and his partner Yashwanth used to run a Linux CDs service called www.LinCDs.com (now defunct) whose purpose, in the days of dialup internet, was to make Linux distributions as accessible as possible in India.
2004-2005
He is known especially for his book ‘A Byte of Python’ that aims to help complete beginners to learn how to program using the Python language. It is available under a Creative Commons license that allows everyone to freely share, read and improve it. The book has had 60,000+ downloads in the past three years. Various volunteers are translating the book into Chinese, Italian, German, Spanish, Icelandic and many other languages. He thanks the online community for the tremendous feedback, support and encouragement in the making of the book.
A couple of mails from recent readers:
This is just a short mail to show my appreciation for youre wikiBook “A byte of Python” - I have never found it easier to learn ANYTHING this quickly, let alone a new programming language. My experience thus far has been almost entirely with java and i am enjoying this new language immensely.
– Thomas Mathew (South Africa)
and:
Just thought I should write and say thank you very much for writing “a byte of python” and putting it on line…as a complete beginner to programing of any kind I was really having problems with the O’Reilly books..and just close to giving up when I found your book - I am now working through it slowly and will be recommending it highly to other beginners like myself…. - I thought I should make the effort to write and thank you - THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
– Charlotte Pearson (USA)
Swaroop has presented various tech talks over the past years at different colleges and universities.
2006
His obsession in the past few years is running and has successfully completed the Bangalore Full marathon in 2006, and the half marathon at the Bangalore Midnight Marathon in 2007.
2007
He was involved in the creation of the ion, the ipod charger. The product has been doing well and has got great response.
2008
He kept asking himself Have I forgotten my dreams? So, he is currently enjoying full time at the ionlab.
Spiel
Swaroop writes a regular weblog at www.swaroopch.com where he jots down his musings on life, technology and everything in between.
Swaroop claims that he is a typical new-age Bangalorean in the sense that he is a software engineer; everything else about him is not so typical.
He also believes that self.life = rand().
