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Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. He remains thankful that he programs as a hobby, not a job. Email dick@dickpountain.co.uk

During the darkest days of lockdown I kept myself amused by practising jazz guitar chords and writing Python programs. I write a lot of small, off-the-cuff programs, for everything from updating phone codes and solving maths puzzles to playing with simulations to do with game theory. Python is the latest in a long list of languages I’ve used:

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