How do we get kids excited about programming?

Make programming tangible with embedded devices.

Did you know that after kids learned to code with the BBC microbit,

90% of them thought that coding was for everyone,

and 86% said it made CS topics more interesting?

One person doing great work in the space is Nina Zakeranco.

She's here to tell us all about her

projects with Circuit Python. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 22 podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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Now let's get to the interview. Nina, welcome to Talk Python. Hi, thanks for having me. It's great to have

you here. You've been on Python Bites, but not Talk Python before. So I'm really excited to talk about

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