What's it like to be a beginner in software development?

How about learning Python for the first time?

This episode is a special panel episode and is the first of a two-part series we're doing on the podcast called Beginners and Experts.

On this first episode, we have a conversation between the beginners and the experts and how we can close the gap to help the beginners get up to speed as quickly as possible.

Our panelists are Carly Cindy, Joy Dayton May, C.C. Flora Muniqua, and Ned Batchelder.

And this is Talk Python to Me, episode 203, recorded January 30th, 2019.

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CC, Joy, Carly, and Ned, welcome all of you to the podcast. Hey, thank you. Thanks. Glad to be here.

Thank you, Mike. You're welcome. You're welcome. It's great to have you all here. People love the panel

shows with lots of different perspectives. So I'm excited to put this together for everyone. So let's start with just

who you are and maybe where you are in this beginner expert side of things and what you do day

today. So people have a perspective. And Cece, let's begin with you. Thank you for having me. Mike. I'm really

excited to be doing this with all of you. So I'm a student in Zimbabwe, a Terrarian Institute of Technology and studying information

security.

I started programming in 2016, and I started with C when we were doing a module for the degree

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