About the Author

Andy Harris began his teaching life as a special education teacher. As he was teaching young adults with severe disabilities, he taught himself enough computer programming to support his teaching habit with freelance programming. Those were the exciting days when computers started to have hard drives, and some computers began communicating with each other over an arcane mechanism some were calling the Internet.

All this time Andy was teaching computer science part time. He joined the faculty of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Computer Science department in 1995. He serves as a Senior Lecturer, teaching the introductory course to freshmen as well as numerous courses on web development, general programming, and game programming. As manager of the Streaming Media Laboratory, he developed a number of online video-based courses, and worked on a number of international distance education projects including helping to start a computer science program in Tetevo, Macedonia FYR, and collaboration with Sun-Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Andy is active in home schooling, and is the technology columnist for a national homeschool magazine.

Andy is the author of several other computing books including HTML5 Game Development For Dummies, JavaScript/AJAX for Dummies, and Game Programming: The L Line. He invites your comments and questions at andy@aharrisbooks.net. You can visit his main site and find a blog, forum, and links to other books at ...

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