Are you learning or helping someone else learn Python?

Why not make a game out of it?

Twilio Quest is a game that doesn't treat you with kid gloves while teaching you Python.

Use your editor of choice and write code on your machine and still play the game to solve the Python challenges.

In this episode, you'll meet Kevin Winery and Ryan Kubick from Twilio, who created Twilio Quest,

and they're here to tell us all about it.

This is Talk Python, Episode 249, recorded December 12, 2019.

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Kevin Ryan, welcome to Talk Python to me.

Awesome.

Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, thanks. Nice to spend a little time with you guys and talk about this programming game.

I think it's going to be so much fun.

For a long time, I played actual games, you know, Mac Warrior, Half-Life, Counterstrike,

something like that.

But then I felt like that was kind of just wasting my time.

And my game actually sort of became programming, you know,

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