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Jim Learns Stuff - Episode 1 – Ancient Cryptography
13 June, 2022 | 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time
- Format:
Livestream
Topic: Coding, Languages, and Frameworks (including GitHub & AI coding)
Language: English
Did you know some of the earliest documented cryptography was used for lovers to exchange love notes nearly 2,500 years ago? Or that techniques to break cryptography trace their origins to 1,500 years ago?
In this episode, Jim explores some classic cryptography and builds out tools in Python to not only encrypt messages, but also to try to decrypt them! he’ll be travelling around the ancient world from India, to Rome, Sparta and Baghdad, learning about their techniques for encrypting and decrypting all manner of secrets.
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Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific Northwest, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.
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