About the show
A podcast by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor about their adventures teaching middle school computer science, problem-solving, handling failure, frustration, and victory through the lens of the Python programming language.
Kelly Paredes has taught all over the world and specializes in curriculum design and development. She currently teaches sixth and seventh-grade computer science at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is her fifth year using Python.
Sean Tibor is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Mondelez International. He has worked in marketing and technical management roles selling toothpaste and toothbrushes, designing chemical inventory and tv media databases, enrolling online nursing students, and founding a digital marketing agency. He has taught Python to seventh and eighth-grade students at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but now supports interns and tutors students in Python.
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Episodes
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Episode 93: Mission Encodeable
July 20th, 2022 | 44 mins 38 secs
learning, python, teaching
Harry and Anna are high-school students who are passionate about coding, engineering, and design. When they’re not doing their homework, they’re busy writing tutorials, designing website wireframes, and planning the next courses for Mission Encodable.
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Episode 92: Let's Talk Teaching
July 13th, 2022 | 50 mins 15 secs
education, panel, python, teaching
In this episode, Sean and Kelly talk with Computer Science and STEM teachers about our wins, our failures, and all about teaching Python.
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Episode 91: The New Beta Python Micro:bit Editor
May 31st, 2022 | 48 mins 43 secs
education, microbit, python, teaching
The Teaching Python podcast speaks with Giles Booth, the Educational Content Manager from the Micro:bit Educational Foundation about the work that they have been doing for the new web-based Python Editor for the micro:bit.
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Episode 90: Equitable Learning
May 12th, 2022 | 56 mins 9 secs
computation, education, python
We welcome David Cavallo an entrepreneur in using technologies to improve learning and promote social equitable development. Our topic this week is computation learning and the reasons and methods for it.
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PyConUS 2022 Debrief!
May 1st, 2022 | 36 mins 33 secs
conferences, education, pycon, python
Kelly and Sean debrief on PyCon US 2022 on Sunday morning before flying home. From the Education Summit to the Expo Hall to the Talk Track, we cover it all. Most importantly, we cover the best food and coffee to check out for next year in Salt Lake City!
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Episode 89: FinTech Careers
April 20th, 2022 | 46 mins 44 secs
careers, finance, fintech, python
We welcome Xavier De Pauw Founder & co-CEO of lendX, a B2B fintech that is looking to revolutionize the alternative credit sector with its SaaS Enabled Marketplace.
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Episode 88: Data Science Careers
April 5th, 2022 | 48 mins 9 secs
careers, data science, python, teaching
We welcome Michael Galarnyk. Michael currently teaches Python for Data Visualization for LinkedIn Learning, Data Analytics using Python for UCSD Extension, Machine Learning Fundamentals for UCSD Extension, and Machine Learning with Python for Stanford Continuing Studies. He has previously taught Essential Python for Global Knowledge and Data Science (Python) at General Assembly.
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Episode 86: Thinking Globally
March 6th, 2022 | 56 mins 15 secs
futurism, predictions, technology
In this episode, Sean and Kelly talk about the future. Looking into the past 20 years+ years of teaching and looking back at how we were taught as children, what has changed? Just as our teachers prepared us for our present, how are we preparing our students?
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Episode 85: Teaching the Basics with Requests
February 16th, 2022 | 43 mins 28 secs
beginners, learning, python, requests, teaching
Most people think of Requests as an intermediate or advanced area of Python, but what happens when we turn it loose on beginner programmers? Spoiler - lots of learning and surprises!
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Episode 84: Global Computer Science with Will Richardson
January 31st, 2022 | 46 mins 26 secs
education, global, learning, teaching
Continuing on conversations about tech for good, helping our students build global competence, and preparing our children to be successful in an ever increasing digital world, Kelly and Sean speak with Will Richardson, founder of the Big Questions Institute.
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Episode 83: 2021 Year in Review (or something)
January 17th, 2022 | 51 mins 4 secs
2021, education, learning, python, reflection, teaching
This week, Kelly and Sean look over all that happened in 2021 for Teaching Python and commit to some bigger goals for 2022. What were the highlights according to our co-hosts?