Not everyone comes to software development and Python through four-year computer science programs at universities.

This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.

Over the course of two episodes, you will meet people who started in other industries and specializations

and now make Python part of their daily experience.

Some of them have used programming to power up their specialization. Others

decided they'd rather just be doing programming full time and made that switch over. This is part

two of the two-part series. Our guests this time are Giuseppe Consolo, Brian Skin, and Teresa Borkush.

This is Talk Bython to Me. Episode 174 recorded July 15th, 2018. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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support the show joseppe brian teresa welcome to talk python thank you for happiness yeah it's really

great to have you all here and i'm really excited to share your story with everyone.

So many people come into programming, either use it to amplify their skills or actually move into programming, and they haven't gone through a four-year computer science degree.

And that pretty much covers you all as well.

So I'm really excited to dig it into what the motivation was, how that's

affected you, and just what your experience was. So that's going to be great. I think probably the

first place to start is what industry did you come from? And I guess we'll just go down our list.

Giuseppe, you started in somewhere that probably most people don't think of

as hotbeds of programming. No, it's a completely different industry. So right now, my current job

is a DevOps engineer, but until five years ago, I was in medical school, although I was not

progressing, I was kind of stuck.

I've been stuck for a few years.

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