How often do you meet people who are looking to get into the software development space?

Do they ask you for advice? Maybe they want to know your story of how you got started and landed

that first big job. Maybe they want to know what they should be doing right now.

This episode of Talk Python to Me is the first in a two-part series that attempts to bring a wide

spectrum of thoughts on this discussion. It's getting your first dev job as a Python developer, Part 1.

It's episode number 39, recorded December 10th, 2015.

I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers, developers.

I'm a developer in many senses of the word, because I make these applications,

but I also use these verbs to make

this music. I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

In both cases, it's about design patterns. Anyone can get the job done. It's the execution

that matters. I have many interests. Sometimes it can flex. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

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Hello and welcome to a special Talk Python to me.

In this Talk Python, we're not going to interview one person that's maybe done something

great in the industry. This is in fact going to be a two-part series made up of panelists. And the

idea is we're going to talk about how do you get started in the software industry in general

and in Python as a Python developer in particular. So the overall goal of the

series is going to be to help newcomers, whether they're entirely new to the development

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