Pradeep Gowda
This site hosts the blog and notebooks of Pradeep Gowda.
Contact Information: ✉️ pradeep🌀btbytes.com, linkedin, github, twitter.
I was born in Bangalore, and went to school (Banashankari Vidya Peetha, 1-4; Vijaya High School, 5-10; National College Jayanagar, PUC) and college (PESIT/Bangalore University, Mechanical Engineering) there.
I moved to USA, specifically the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel in 2008. I got a Masters Degree (MSCS) in Computer Science from Purdue University, Indianapolis.
I was fascinated by programming around the time I started college, and soon it was complemented by then nascent Open Source movement. I have learnt various programming languages on my own, but my goldilocks language is python.
Website
This website has been on the web since 2003. It started out as a Open source CD shop that sent people F/OSS software like GNU/Linux, OpenOffice etc., when the cost of downloading bytes over dial-up modems was expensive in India.
Now it is my “online presense” with blog posts, notebooks, talks etc. If you are curious on how this site is built, see the colophon page.
The papers/articles referenced in this website are available in the nbrefs section. Command used to generate the HTML from nbrefs.bib
Misc
If you are looking for ideas on what you can do with a website, see this nice list — 100 things you can do on your personal website | James’ Coffee Blog. While I have done many of those things, I still want to add a few more things from that list.