Chapter 6. Massimo Di Pierro

Massimo Di Pierro is an Italian web developer, data science expert, and lecturer. For the last 15 years, Massimo has been a professor for the School of Computing at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the inventor and lead developer of web2py, an open source web application framework written in Python. Massimo is a regular contributor to open source Python projects around the world and has published three books on Python, including Annotated Algorithms in Python. His active work in the Python community has seen him elected a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).

Discussion themes: web2py, Python books, v2.7/v3.x.

Catch up with Massimo Di Pierro here: @mdipierro

Mike Driscoll: How did you become a computer programmer?

Massimo Di Pierro: So I am a physicist, but I actually started computer programming when I was in middle school. My dad had the IBM PC at home. He was a COBOL programmer and he was mostly working with accounting software.

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