How do you learn libraries or even parts of Python itself that you don't have actual work

projects to try them out on?

Whether that SQL Alchemy Slackbots or Map APIs actually building projects, small and

large, with them, is really the only way to gain true competency.

Well, you might try one of the 100 days of Python code challenges that have been going

around.

This week, you'll meet Bob Belderbos and Julian Sakaria, who created PiBytes.

They've done a few 100 days of code challenges and are here to share their experience

and even some concrete examples.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 140 recorded November 28th, 2017.

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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is partially supported by our training courses. Have you heard about the 100 days of code

challenge? It's a challenge where you write code for an hour a day for 100 days. It's helped

many developers finally master programming, but it can be hard to know what to study or have

resources to focus on.

That's why we wrote not one, but two 100 days of code courses.

100 days of code in Python, which covers mostly pure Python, and 100 days of web in Python,

which covers a whole spectrum of web frameworks and concepts.

If you've been thinking about taking the 100 days of code challenge,

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