The key to making anything a habit, including learning a program, is to make it fun.

That's exactly what Annalena Popkhas did, with her 100 days of code challenge.

She created a magical universe where Python-derived creatures and castles live.

Join us on this episode as we explore some of the Python concepts she encountered it on her journey,

as well as how she made her way to Microsoft Research in the UK where she's doing an AI residency this is Talk Python to me

episode 18th recorded November 13th 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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Anoleno, welcome to Talk Python.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you as well. It's so great to have you here.

And I'm really looking forward to our topics.

We're going to talk about your 100 days of code project and its interesting angle.

And then a little bit about what you're doing with machine learning as well, because I think that's super interesting.

But before we get to those stories,

let's start with yours. How do you get into programming in Python? So I got into programming way too late, in my opinion. So I was studying cognitive science in my undergraduate degree

in order to become a neuroscientist. And at the very end of the program, I attended an intro to

machine learning lecture. And I became so fascinated by the

idea that you could have algorithms that are able to learn from data and detect patterns,

and then even make predictions on data, that I decided to switch fields. So I looked for a computer

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