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Pedagogy for the Autodidactic Programmer

Welcome to the personal web site of Paul M. Parks. This is where I keep my web development skills current while sharing snippets of code, utilities, libraries, and what little development wisdom I've gathered in my career. It's also where I show off my family, talk about my hobbies, or just pontificate from time to time.

If you find the articles interesting, or if you'd like more information on a particular topic, let me know [paul@parkscomputing.com].

New Guitar Tutorial Videos

I've just started creating a series of videos on Youtube on how to play the Eddie Van Halen instrumental "Spanish Fly" from the album Van Halen II. I've been promising these videos for about a year, after already having posted three different versions of the tune to Youtube (one at half speed). So far I have an introductory video and a video on the first section of the piece. By the time I'm done, I expect to have well over an hour's worth of videos spread out over six to eight clips.

Here's the introductory video:

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Posted March 7, 2010 0 Comments

Guitar Videos

I've uploaded some videos of me playing the guitar to my YouTube site. Go take a look and let me know what you think.

I've got a lot more stuff that I plan to upload, such as a step-by-step instructional video series on how to play Spanish Fly, which is so far the second most-difficult piece I've ever learned. The most difficult, by far, is Paganini's Caprice No. 24. I'm still trying to polish that one before I post it.

Here's a sample:

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Posted April 26, 2009 0 Comments

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