How can we make learning Python and teaching Python more real for students, especially younger

students?

The BBC in the UK had a great idea.

Make it more physically real with actual devices.

That's where Nicholas Tolerwe got involved.

He helped bring the BBC Microbit and Python to millions of kids in the UK.

Join me to hear a story on this, episode 184 of Talk Python to Me, recorded October 12th,

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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Nicholas welcome to talk python thank you good to be here yeah it's great to have you here

we've been trying for a long time and finally after you know summer vacations and all sorts of

traveling we've managed to get together here on the show yeah it's gonna be good i'm looking

forward to this yeah so my it's going to be a lot I'm looking forward to this. Yeah, so am I.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Now, we're going to talk about teaching and education and IoT and Python and all sorts of

cool stuff you've been involved in.

But before we get into that, let's start with your story.

How do you get into programming in Python? go, perhaps not in a galaxy far far away. When I was a child, I grew up in the 80s and every school

in the UK was given an 8-bit compulsive sort of VBC micro and my dad was a head teacher, a school

principal and one school holiday, he brought this machine home to try and figure out how am I

going to use this in school

and it took about half an hour for my brother and i to grasp it from his hands and take over

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