#20: Interactive Python and Teaching Python: Beyond Text Books

You often hear that we need to teach computer science as a foundational skill. Why? Well I'm not sure many of the leaders pushing this forward have great answers other than jobs!

3 Jan 20171h 1min

Here's a bonus as many of you are on winter break or travelling around. I hope you enjoy this episode of Python Bytes. If you love it, be sure to subscribe to the full podcast. Full [show notes here](https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/6/python-3.6-is- going-to-be-awesome-kite-your-friendly-co-developing-ai).

29 Dec 201621min

It's been an amazing year for Python and Data Science. It's time to look back at the major headlines and take stock in what we've done as a community.

27 Dec 20161h 7min

Do you have a dirty, messy data problem? Whether you work as a software developer or as a data scientist, you've surely run across data that was malformed, incomplete, or maybe even wrong. Don't let messy data wreck your apps or generate wrong results.

21 Dec 20161h 1min

This special episode is hosted by Jonathon Morgan.

15 Dec 201652min

Django is a very popular Python web framework. One reason is you have many building blocks to drop in for large sections of your application. Need a full-on admin table editor backend? That's a few lines of code and boom you have a basic table editor.

6 Dec 201659min

If you could have any API you want for accessing data from Python, what would it look like? What would make it Pythonic? This week you'll hear about Pony ORM: Pony is a Python ORM with beautiful query syntax that lets you write your database queries using Python generators and lambdas.

29 Nov 201656min

If you run into a problem with some API or Python code what do you do to solve it? I personally throw a few keywords into google, sometimes even before checking the full docs.

24 Nov 20161h 10min