Online education has certainly gone mainstream. Developers and companies have finally gotten comfortable

taking online courses. Sometimes these are recorded, self-paced courses like the ones we have at

Talk Python training. Other times, they're more like live events in webcast format. In this episode,

you'll meet two guys who are taking the interactivity of online learning up a notch.

Brian Clark and Cecil Phillip run a weekly event on Twitch,

where they are live streaming an interactive Python course.

They take questions from hundreds of students and dig into the diversions that mainstream online learning simply cannot.

This is Talk Python to Me.

Episode 242 recorded on location at Microsoft Ignite in

Orlando, Florida, November 7, 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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Brian Cecil, welcome to Talk Python.

Hey, how's it going?

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, it's good to have you here.

I'm super excited to talk about this Twitch stuff.

Like, to me, Twitch and Mixer and all these cool live stream gaming things, they're amazing.

And it's just such a different world that I'm used to,

but it's, it hasn't been on my radar as a programming thing until Cecil, you said, hey,

you know what? We're doing together. And I'm like, no way. That is, that's really cool. So we're

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