Many of you studied computer science at a university to get into programming and your careers.

But I bet most of you came through some self-study or some sort of backdoor into the industry.

I count myself among that crowd.

This is one of the true bright spots of our industry that we can earn our way in without necessarily going and getting formal college degrees.

But sometimes that academic formalism

would come in handy. That's where David Kopeck's book is a great resource. It's an approachable

and quick introduction to computer science, and that's our topic on this episode. This is Talk

Python to Me, episode 211, recorded March 3rd, 2019.

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Hey, everyone, before we get to our interview with David,

I want to share some super exciting news.

You've probably heard about our 100 Days of Code with Python course.

Well, Bob Julian and I are back with another 100 Days of Code course.

This time, it's all about the web. We've created a course called 100 days of web in Python. And it's a similar style course, but it covers so many of

the web technologies that you might be interested in. Want to learn about async? That's in there.

Want to learn about Django? It's in there.

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