How do you learn to program when you're working in a vacuum?

Sure, there are resources on the internet,

but sometimes just bouncing ideas off other people in person makes a huge difference.

Join me along with Rusty Gregory as we discuss how he's learning and teaching Python in a small town in Vermont.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 194, recorded January 4th, 2019.

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

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Hey, everyone. Before we get to our conversation with Rusty, I want to tell you about a new

course we just launched, introduction to Ancable. This one was created by Matthew McCai,

a full-stack Python. If you're involved with deploying a web app or managing servers,

especially Python web apps, you owe it to yourself to check out

Ancable.

It provides a declarative way to provision, configure, and evolve infrastructure and

applications.

What makes it even better is it's written in and can be extended in Python.

Check out the course over at training.docpython.fm.

Corporate and team options are available too. Now, let's talk

with Rusty. Rusty, welcome to Talk Python. Oh, thank you. Thank you for having me. It's good to be here.

Yeah, it's great to have you here. I'm super excited to talk about learning Python and teaching Python in

your world. But before we get to all that stuff, let's just start with your story. How do you

get into programming in Python? I've been playing around with the web for quite a long time.

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