Mark Pilgrim (software developer)

Mark Pilgrim
Born	November 24, 1972 (1972-11-24) (age 38)
Residence	Apex, North Carolina, USA
Website
http://diveintomark.org/[dead link]

Mark Pilgrim is a software developer, writer, and advocate of free software. He authors a popular blog, and has written several books including Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language published under the GNU Free Documentation License. Formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group,^[1] he started working at Google in March 2007.^[2]

Books and articles

Dive Into Python

Pilgrim's book Dive Into Python is a teach-by-example guide to the paradigms of programming in Python and modern software development techniques. It assumes some preexisting knowledge of programming, although not necessarily in Python. The first edition was published in 2004 (ISBN 1-59059-356-1), and a 2009 second edition (ISBN 9781430224150) covers Python 3. Both are available online as well as in print.^[3][4]

Much of the book consists of example programs with annotations and explanatory text, generally describe how to modify an example to serve new purposes. One early example program reads through a directory of MP3 files and lists the header information, such as artist, album, etc. Other topics covered include object oriented programming, documentation, unit testing, and accessing and parsing HTML and XML.

Other work

• Greasemonkey Hacks Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox, O'Reilly, 2005
• Dive Into Accessibility^{[dead link]}, a free book on web accessibility, for web designers
• Dive into Greasemonkey^{[dead link]}, a free book on Greasemonkey.

• Dive into HTML 5, a free book on HTML5

Mark has also written a monthly column Dive Into XML for O'Reilly's XML.com.

Open source work

Mark Pilgrim has contributed to a number of open source works including

• Feed Validator
• Universal Feed Parser^{[dead link]} (now maintained on Google code)
• Google Doctype

References

1. ^ "IBM developerworks: Making emerging technologies accessible". http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=354. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
2. ^ "Two visions: Blog post at Mark's official site". 2007-03-19. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/19/two-visions. Retrieved 2007-03-22. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Mark Pilgrim (2000–2004). "Dive Into Python: Python from novice to pro". http://www.diveintopython.net/. Retrieved October 2011. 
4. ^ Mark Pilgrim (2001–2009). "Dive Into Python 3". http://diveintopython3.ep.io/. Retrieved October 2011. 

External links

• "Dive into Mark - Personal site". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20110718034434/http://diveintomark.org/. Retrieved 2011-09-30. 
• Mark Pilgrim (October 21, 2009). Dive Into Python 3. ISBN 1430224150. http://diveintopython3.ep.io/. Retrieved 2010-10-26. 
• Dive Into Python - The complete text can be downloaded in a variety of formats
• Mike Orr (January 5, 2005). "Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7721. Retrieved 2010-01-06. 
• Works by or about Mark Pilgrim (software developer) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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