Do you remember what it's like to learn Python? Yes, some of you may have just picked up the language,

while others have lived and breathed it for years. Either way, you may have some hindsight bias

towards the whole experience. What was hard? What were your expectations? And what delighted you?

Well, consider this episode, 10 months in the making, your time capsule to explore just this experience. It starts

July 22, 2015, with a unique user group or meetup called San Diego Technology Immersion Group,

or SDTIG for short. This group spends six to eight months deep diving together into a topic

rather than hearing a different one-hour presentation each month.

We'll follow the organizers and students before many of them learn a single line of Python

all the way to the end 10 months later after they've studied the language, web, and data

science frameworks. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 62, recorded throughout 2015 and 2016.

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. 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.

Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.

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