When can you call yourself a professional developer?

Sure, getting paid to write code is probably part of the formula, but when is your skill set

up to that level?

Many folks in the industry suffer from imposter syndrome or other types of uncertainty.

Yet, there are real techniques and skills you should know before you meet this bar.

Dane Hillard is here to share his take on the practices of the Python Pro.

We'll discuss concrete steps as well as abstract design concepts

to help your code make the jump to pro level.

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Dane, welcome to Talk Python to me.

Hey, thanks.

It's great to have you here.

I'm really excited about this topic, actually.

I think you've got something good going on here.

It'd be fun to talk about.

Yeah, thanks a lot.

Thanks for having me.

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