Gary Popkin
Gary S. Popkin (born May 17, 1938, in New York City) is a retired Professor of Computer Systems at New York City College of Technology and is a libertarian activist. He has written several college textbooks on the Cobol Programming Language. He has a Ph.D. from Polytechnic University. He produces Hardfire, a Libertarian Talk Show which is broadcast on Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT).
Gary Popkin was a Libertarian candidate for Brooklyn Borough President in 2005 and received 2,143 votes. He was Treasurer of the Libertarian Party of New York from 2006 to 2009.
The form of New York State nominating petition for public office called the "Popkin petition" derived from this court case: http://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-second-department/2005/2005-07575.html
Books
- Introduction to Data Processing in Basic ISBN 0-395-30091-6
- Advanced Structured Cobol ISBN 0-534-07788-9
- Comprehensive Structured COBOL ISBN 0-534-06216-4
- Introductory Structured Cobol Programming ISBN 0-534-04566-9
- Introduction to Data Processing ISBN 0-395-29483-5
- Comprehensive Structured COBOL ISBN 0-534-93270-3
- Instructors Manual, Introduction to data processing, second edition (BASIC version also)
Videos
- Pink Pistols
- Circumcision
- The Truth about 9/11
- Crisis in Afghanistan
- Hardfire Exposes the Naked Truth About Nudism