Paul Barry

Paul Barry lecturers at The Institute of Technology, Carlow in Ireland, where he has taught for 15 years on topics such as cloud computing, web development, network programming, scripting technologies, Linux and systems management. Prior to joining the academic world, Paul spent a decade in industry in software development and IT management roles, both in Ireland and in Canada.

Paul has an M.Sc. in Computing. He is the author (or co-author) of four books: two on Perl (for Wiley) and two on Python (for O'Reilly).

Paul's latest book, part of the popular Head First Series from O'Reilly Media, is Head First Python (published in November 2010).

Paul has been writing for Linux Journal since 2000 and has been a Contributing Editor with the magazine since 2005. Find out more about Paul at his website: http://paulbarry.itcarlow.ie