As most of you know, learning to program opens doors.

It takes everyday people and turns them into creators.

Once you know programming and Python, you've passed through a door to a place with much more opportunity.

Now, consider the impact this could have if you grow up in an environment with less opportunity,

with fewer people you knew leading the way into software careers.

Today, you'll meet Sean Valentine and Landon Miller helping run an amazing project

and Mohamed Abdullah and Malik Poole who graduated from this project.

It's called the Hidden Genius Project, and it helps young black men become developers and entrepreneurs.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 114, recorded live at PyCon 2017 in Portland, Oregon on May 20th, 2017.

I'm a developer in many senses of the word because I make these applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music.

I constructed line by line,

just like when I'm coding another software design. In both cases, it's about design patterns.

Anyone can get the job done. It's the execution that matters. I have many interests. Sometimes it can flage. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm and follow the show on Twitter via at Talk Python.

This episode is brought to you by Intel and Hired. Please check out what they have to

offer during their segments as it really helps support the show. Welcome to Talk Python. Thank you.

Good to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you guys. It's always wonderful to see people who have

relatively fresh eyes looking at technology and programming and all the stuff that, you know,

goes on at these types of conferences and this ecosystem and just hear how it's working for you

as relatively new people in the programming.

So I'm super excited to having you on the show.

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