Bill Laboon

Strength in Numbers Bill Laboon

Phlox Tseretelli was an ordinary English literature major and part-time waitress worried about grades and her career prospects after graduation... until she discovered that somewhere in her apartment might be the key to five bitcoin. Left behind by a long-dead researcher who used to live there, it would make her one of the richest people in Pittsburgh. For a poor girl from a dying Rust Belt mill town, this was the opportunity of a lifetime. With the help of her friend Chris, a computer science major, and her roommate Holly, a mathematics major, Phlox may be able to understand how cryptocurrency works and obtain a fortune, solving her monetary problems forever. But that would only be the beginning of her troubles. About the Author: Bill Laboon currently teaches computer science at the University of Pittsburgh, after fifteen years in the software industry in a variety of roles including developer, quality analyst, field engineer, and technical lead. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups on a variety of topics, including cryptocurrency, functional programming, and the ethics of software development. He is also the author of A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, a textbook used in his own Software Quality Assurance course as well as by numerous other instructors in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, and elsewhere. If forced to answer the question, his favorite programming language is Ruby.