Here’s a helpful article in the Chronicle of Higher Education with links to free classes and websites:

So you want to learn to program? By Robert Talbert, 1/16/2012.

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2012/01/16/so-you-want-to-learn-to-program/

Yes you can learn to program, even if it’s just quick-and-dirty code to accomplish a basic task that would be tedious to do by hand.  I suggest Python which is relatively easy to learn & use, and free to download.  A few of us at my library have learned some basic Python, if only to accomplish text processing that Excel can’t handle well, or for MARC record conversions prior to loading in the catalog.  It really saves us a lot of tedious, inefficient work.

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Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Tutt Library, Colorado College

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661

(719) 389-6082 (fax)