Getting started in Python is pretty easy.

There's even a t-shirt that jokes about it.

I learned Python. It was a good weekend.

But to go from knowing how to create variables and writing loops

to building amazing things like Fast API and Instagram,

well, there's this little gap in between those two things, don't you think?

On this episode, we welcome Eric Matthews to the show.

He has thought a lot about teaching

Python and comes to share his 10 tips for going from Python beginner to expert. This is Talk Python

to me. Episode 427 recorded July 19th, 2003. Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python.

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