#8: Teaching Python at Grok Learning and Classrooms
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#8: Teaching Python at Grok Learning and Classrooms

Did you know that Australia is making text-based computer programming a core requirement for high school students? Grok Learning is building the platform to make teaching it to kids a joy for teachers and students. Our guest, Dr. James Curran is a key player in both of these projects. Join Michael in a conversation with Dr. Curran from Sydney University and co- founder of Grok Learning to learn about both of these and more! You'll learn about the different types of online tutorials, or short courses, you can use for learning or teaching including a text-based MUD game!

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#518: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators

#518: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators

Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable w...

29 Elo 20251h 8min

#517: Agentic Al Programming with Python

#517: Agentic Al Programming with Python

Agentic AI programming is what happens when coding assistants stop acting like autocomplete and start collaborating on real work. In this episode, we cut through the hype and incentives to define “age...

22 Elo 20251h 17min

#516: Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA

#516: Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA

Python’s data stack is getting a serious GPU turbo boost. In this episode, Ben Zaitlen from NVIDIA joins us to unpack RAPIDS, the open source toolkit that lets pandas, scikit-learn, Spark, Polars, and...

19 Elo 20251h 5min

#515: Durable Python Execution with Temporal

#515: Durable Python Execution with Temporal

What if your code was crash-proof? That's the value prop for a framework called Temporal. Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrif...

11 Elo 20251h 10min

#514: Python Language Summit 2025

#514: Python Language Summit 2025

Every year the core developers of Python convene in person to focus on high priority topics for CPython and beyond. This year they met at PyCon US 2025. Those meetings are closed door to keep focused ...

18 Heinä 20251h 13min

#513: Stories from Python History

#513: Stories from Python History

Why do people listen to this podcast? Sure, they're looking for technical explorations of new libraries and ideas. But often it's to hear the story behind them. If that speaks to you, then I have the ...

14 Heinä 20251h 8min

#512: Building a JIT Compiler for CPython

#512: Building a JIT Compiler for CPython

Do you like to dive into the details and intricacies of how Python executes and how we can optimize it? Well, do I have an episode for you. We welcome back Brandt Bucher to give us an update on the up...

2 Heinä 20251h 8min

#511: From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems

#511: From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems

If you're doing data science and have mostly spent your time doing exploratory or just local development, this could be the episode for you. We are joined by Catherine Nelson to discuss techniques and...

25 Kesä 202554min