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A quick bit of news before we talk with Roman.

I've been looking for a way to explore ideas teaching Python, get some feedback,

and then bring what I've learned back to the course content.

So I'm kicking off a new initiative over on YouTube.

It's called Python Shorts, and the goal is to teach you one thing,

both interesting and useful

as well as actionable, about Python. I have three videos out so far. The first, parsing data with

Pidentic, the second, counting the number of times an item appears in a list with counter,

and third, do you even need loops in Python? I also published a fourth video about using the stream deck, that little button device

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