Author Archives | Bryson Payne

About Bryson Payne

Author of Teach Your Kids to Code, TEDx Speaker, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Georgia.

Car Hacking in 30 Minutes or Less

October 20, 2018

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Dr. Payne car hacking his own Volkswagen Jetta

This tutorial will guide you step-by-step into one of the hottest cyber skills in the world: car hacking! Using VirtualBox and Kali Linux, you can start car hacking using completely free open-source software and tools, including can-utils, ICSim, ScanTool, Wireshark, and tcpdump. You’ll create a functioning CAN (controller area network) simulator with a dashboard just […]

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Dr. Payne’s TEDx Talk on Teaching Kids to Code

April 24, 2018

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Dr. Bryson Payne speaks at TEDx in 2018 on Coding and Cyber as the "New Literacy".

Imagine a world with a literacy rate of only 3%. What if, out of every 100 people, only 3 could read and write? Right now, in America, there are over 320 million people, yet fewer than 9 million of us, less than 3%, can read and write code – the language of technology. So, what […]

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Enroll in “Real-World Ethical Hacking” for Just $10! You Get 80% Off (Save $40) by Joining This Week!

August 29, 2017

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Students Are Loving “Real-World Ethical Hacking” and “Learn Java the Easy Way”!   I just learned that both of my new courses, Real-World Ethical Hacking: Hands-on Cybersecurity  and Learn Java the Easy Way: Build Desktop & Android Mobile Apps  are rated in the top 10% of all courses on Udemy! These courses join my best-selling Teach Your Kids to Code (Python)  to give […]

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UNG cited as a national leader in cyber security education

May 27, 2016

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The University of North Georgia is designated by the NSA as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE).

The University of North Georgia (UNG) recently earned designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CDE). The designation is from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) who jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) program. Universities are designated based on their robust degree […]

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Permanent Coupon Codes for My Udemy Courses – Just $19 Forever!

March 9, 2016

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Teach Your Kids to Code and Learn Java Like a Kid, just $19 forever on Udemy!

In the past 8 months, I’ve been honored, humbled, and amazed to have over 8,600 students enroll in my two Udemy courses, “Teach Your Kids to Code” and “Fun with Java”! In the ten months since my book, Teach Your Kids to Code debuted, we’re already in a third printing (over 22,000 copies!), and I’ve […]

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Coding example apps in Python 2.7 versus Python 3.5

January 23, 2016

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Several readers and students have asked about running the example programs from “Teach Your Kids to Code” in IDLE for Python 2.7 (the common default on Mac OS X and Linux computers) – the good news is that there are two relatively easy options: Upgrade to Python v3 with the terminal commands: sudo apt-get install python3 and sudo apt-get install […]

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Join 6,000 Students in My New Java Course in 2016!

January 4, 2016

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Learn Java Like a Kid

You can celebrate the new year by joining over 6,000 students in my brand new Java programming course, “Learn Java Like a Kid: Build Three Desktop and Mobile Apps!” on Udemy – and, thanks to the Udemy New Year’s Promotion, you can enroll for just $10 by using the coupon code 10REASONS! I would love […]

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Get $30 Off for Back-to-School, Over 2,000 Students Enrolled!

September 8, 2015

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Special back-to-school pricing for my Udemy course, get $30 off with coupon code BACK2SCHOOL19 !

It’s back-to-school time nationwide, and over 2,000 students have joined my Udemy online course, “Teach Your Kids to Code: Learn to Program Python at Any Age!” in the two months since we launched! To celebrate, you can get the course for just $19, with 7 hours of video in over 100 short, 2-6 minute lectures for learners young and […]

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Join My FREE O’Reilly Webcast Tomorrow (8/13 1pm ET/10am PT): “Teach Your Kids to Code”

August 12, 2015

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Register for my FREE O'Reilly Webcast, TOMORROW (Thu, 8/13) from 1-2ET (10-11PT).

There’s still time! Register now for my FREE O’Reilly Webinar, “Teach Your Kids to Code: Basic concepts with Turtle graphics in Python”, LIVE tomorrow, Thursday, August 13, 2015, from 10-11am Pacific Time (1-2pm Eastern). You can register for free at https://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3422 – I’ll be demonstrating how you can teach (and learn) basic programming concepts likes variables, loops […]

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Over 1,100 Students Enrolled in “Teach Your Kids to Code” Course Online!

August 9, 2015

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We launched “Teach Your Kids to Code” as a Udemy online course in mid-July, and over 1,100 students have enrolled in less than a month! If you’re one of my students, thank you for taking the course – if you haven’t signed up yet, you can still use the coupon code FRIENDS27 to get $30 off and start […]

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