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  1. Introduction
  2. Objects and Classes
  3. Finding Duplicate Files
  4. Matching Patterns
  5. Parsing Text
  6. Running Tests
  7. An Interpreter
  8. Functions and Closures
  9. Protocols
  10. A File Archiver
  11. An HTML Validator
  12. A Template Expander
  13. A Code Linter
  14. Page Layout
  15. Performance Profiling
  16. Object Persistence
  17. Binary Data
  18. A Database
  19. A Build Manager
  20. A Package Manager
  21. Transferring Files
  22. Serving Web Pages
  23. A File Viewer
  24. Undo and Redo
  25. A Virtual Machine
  26. A Debugger
  27. Observers
  28. Generating Documentation
  29. File Compression
  30. A File Cache
  31. Object-Relational Mapper
  32. Concurrency
  33. Conclusion
  1. Bibliography
  2. Bonus Material
  3. Syllabus
  4. License
  5. Code of Conduct
  6. Contributing
  7. Glossary
  8. Colophon
  9. Index

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  • The tutorial text uses Atkinson Hyperlegible, which was designed to be easy for people with impaired vision to read. Code uses Source Code Pro and diagrams use Helvetica.

  • The colors in this theme are lightened versions of those used in classic Canadian postage stamps. The art in the title is by Danielle Navarro and used with her gracious permission.

  • The CSS files used to style code were obtained from highlight-css; legibility was checked using WebAIM WAVE.

  • Diagrams were created with the desktop version of draw.io.

  • The site is hosted on GitHub Pages.

  • Traffic statistics are collected using Plausible, which provides a lightweight ethical alternative to surveillance capitalism.

  • Thanks to the authors of Ark, BeautifulSoup, html5validator, pybtex, ruff, and all the other software used in this project. If we all give a little, we all get a lot.