Think about how you learn most technical or detail-oriented subjects. You start at the bottom,

lowest level and you create building blocks and work your way into the thing that eventually you get to

that you actually care about. This happens in engineering, this happens in math, this even happens in programming.

Our guest this week, Dr. Allen Downey, believes that computation and programming can help us turn this inside-out way of teaching

right-side-out again. Join Alan and me as we discuss programming as a way of thinking and physical

modeling and engineering in Python. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 119 recorded May 30th,

2017. I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers,

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 flick.

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.

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