web02.fireside.fm Sat, 23 May 2026 19:11:59 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Teaching Python - Episodes Tagged with “Guests” https://www.teachingpython.fm/tags/guests Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500 Welcome to "Teaching Python Podcast,” the go-to podcast for anyone interested in the intersection of education and coding. Hosted by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor, this podcast dives into the thrills and challenges of teaching computer science through the engaging and versatile Python programming language. About the Hosts: Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Celebrating her seventh year of integrating Python into her teaching, Kelly has a knack for making complex concepts accessible and exciting. Sean Tibor, a Cloud, Infrastructure, and Networks leader at Pfizer, draws from a rich background that spans marketing, database design, and digital agency leadership. Having taught Python to seventh and eighth graders at Pine Crest School, Sean now extends his expertise by supporting interns and tutoring students in Python. Explore with Us: * Engaging Lessons: Discover how we make Python programming both fun and accessible for young learners, equipping them with the skills to tackle real-world problems. * Classroom Insights: Experience our journey through both triumphs and trials in the classroom, and learn what it takes to foster a vibrant learning environment. * Expert Interviews: Gain valuable perspectives from interviews with fellow educators and industry experts, who share their top strategies and success stories in coding education. en-us episodic We're two computer science educators learning and teaching Python Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes Welcome to "Teaching Python Podcast,” the go-to podcast for anyone interested in the intersection of education and coding. Hosted by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor, this podcast dives into the thrills and challenges of teaching computer science through the engaging and versatile Python programming language. About the Hosts: Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Celebrating her seventh year of integrating Python into her teaching, Kelly has a knack for making complex concepts accessible and exciting. Sean Tibor, a Cloud, Infrastructure, and Networks leader at Pfizer, draws from a rich background that spans marketing, database design, and digital agency leadership. Having taught Python to seventh and eighth graders at Pine Crest School, Sean now extends his expertise by supporting interns and tutoring students in Python. Explore with Us: * Engaging Lessons: Discover how we make Python programming both fun and accessible for young learners, equipping them with the skills to tackle real-world problems. * Classroom Insights: Experience our journey through both triumphs and trials in the classroom, and learn what it takes to foster a vibrant learning environment. * Expert Interviews: Gain valuable perspectives from interviews with fellow educators and industry experts, who share their top strategies and success stories in coding education. no Digital Literacy, Coding for Kids ,Tech Integration in Education, 21st Century Skills, Blended Learning, Remote Learning, Adaptive Learning Technologies, Student Engagement Strategies, Flipped Classroom, Inquiry-Based Learning,education, python, computer science, teaching, pedagogy, STEM education, programming languages, educational technology, curriculum development, instructional design, e-learning, teacher training, data science, machine learning, higher education, tech education, innovative teaching, lesson planning, edtech tools, professional development Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes sean.tibor@gmail.com Episode 32: Teaching Python With TwilioQuest https://www.teachingpython.fm/32 4724a019-ce39-4fd1-a91a-65f75116589e Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500 Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes 32 Teaching Python With TwilioQuest full Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes Kelly and Sean embark on an epic journey with Kevin Whinnery from TwilioQuest to learn more Python in the classroom. From the TwilioQuest Website: Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. 43:50 no <p>This week, Kelly and Sean embark on a journey with Twilio Developer Evangelist Kevin Whinnery using TwilioQuest to learn more Python in the classroom. </p> <p>What is TwilioQuest?</p> <p>Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in <a href="https://www.twilio.com/quest" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">TwilioQuest</a>, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. Free forever, and available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.</p> <p>Players will learn how to code in Python, set up a developer environment, use Git to contrubute to open source projects, and access Twilio APIs to communicate using code. </p> gamification, python, education, teaching, twilio This week, Kelly and Sean embark on a journey with Twilio Developer Evangelist Kevin Whinnery using TwilioQuest to learn more Python in the classroom.

What is TwilioQuest?

Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. Free forever, and available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Players will learn how to code in Python, set up a developer environment, use Git to contrubute to open source projects, and access Twilio APIs to communicate using code.

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  • TwilioQuest - Discover your power to change the world with code. — Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. Free forever, and available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • Kano PC | Learn — How to code your computer With simple steps, learn logic, Python and Javascript. Level up as you make art, games, and music. It's your first steps into making your own websites, games, and more.
  • MECC - Wikipedia — The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in the state of Minnesota; however, its software eventually became popular in schools around the world.[1][2] MECC had its headquarters in the Brookdale Corporate Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.[3][4][5]
  • Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive — As a covered wagon party of pioneers, you head out west from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. You first must stock up on provisions, and then, while traveling, make decisions such as when to rest, how much food to eat, etc. The Oregon Trail incorporates simulation elements and planning ahead, along with discovery and adventure, as well as mini-game-like activities (hunting and floating down the Dalles River).
]]> This week, Kelly and Sean embark on a journey with Twilio Developer Evangelist Kevin Whinnery using TwilioQuest to learn more Python in the classroom.

What is TwilioQuest?

Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. Free forever, and available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Players will learn how to code in Python, set up a developer environment, use Git to contrubute to open source projects, and access Twilio APIs to communicate using code.

Support Teaching Python

Links:

  • TwilioQuest - Discover your power to change the world with code. — Learn to code and lead your intrepid crew on a mission to save The Cloud in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era. Free forever, and available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • Kano PC | Learn — How to code your computer With simple steps, learn logic, Python and Javascript. Level up as you make art, games, and music. It's your first steps into making your own websites, games, and more.
  • MECC - Wikipedia — The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in the state of Minnesota; however, its software eventually became popular in schools around the world.[1][2] MECC had its headquarters in the Brookdale Corporate Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.[3][4][5]
  • Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive — As a covered wagon party of pioneers, you head out west from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. You first must stock up on provisions, and then, while traveling, make decisions such as when to rest, how much food to eat, etc. The Oregon Trail incorporates simulation elements and planning ahead, along with discovery and adventure, as well as mini-game-like activities (hunting and floating down the Dalles River).
]]> Episode 29: Non-Traditional Python Education https://www.teachingpython.fm/29 b3237aee-fe5c-47ce-bdb8-3fbef089a26a Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400 Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes 29 Non-Traditional Python Education full Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes This week, Kelly and Sean are joined by Brianne Caplan from Code Your Dreams and Gabrielle Rabinowitz from the BridgeUP: STEM Program at the American Museum of Natural History to discuss K-12 Python Education that happens outside of a traditional classroom. 48:06 no <p>This week, Kelly and Sean are joined by <a href="https://www.briannecaplan.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Brianne Caplan</a> from <a href="https://www.codeyourdreams.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Code Your Dreams</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/gabriellerab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Gabrielle Rabinowitz</a> from the <a href="https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/bridgeup-stem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BridgeUP: STEM Program</a> at the American Museum of Natural History to discuss K-12 Python Education that happens outside of the classroom.</p> <p>Special Guests: Brianne Caplan and Gabrielle Rabinowitz.</p> python, non-profits, guests, education This week, Kelly and Sean are joined by Brianne Caplan from Code Your Dreams and Gabrielle Rabinowitz from the BridgeUP: STEM Program at the American Museum of Natural History to discuss K-12 Python Education that happens outside of the classroom.

Special Guests: Brianne Caplan and Gabrielle Rabinowitz.

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Special Guests: Brianne Caplan and Gabrielle Rabinowitz.

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]]> Episode 12: Intercontinental Python with Bob and Julian from PyBites https://www.teachingpython.fm/12 0bfe8706-f615-40ee-9e84-b7c39d1c462f Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:00:00 -0500 Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes 12 Intercontinental Python with Bob and Julian from PyBites full Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes In this episode, Kelly and Sean meet Bob and Julian from PyBit.es to discuss strategies, and how to seek advice and motivation when learning Python. 44:45 no <p>In this episode, Kelly and Sean meet Bob and Julian from PyBit.es to discuss strategies, and how to seek advice and motivation when learning Python.</p> <p>Bob is a driven Pythonista working as a software developer at Oracle.. Bob is passionate about automation, data, web development, code quality, and mentoring other developers.”</p> <p>Julian is a Data Centre Technician at Amazon Web Services. He started coding a few years ago and codes for fun and to solve everyday projects.</p> <p>Together they founded PyBites, a Python blog featuring code challenges, articles, and news. Special Guests: Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira.</p> python,code challenges, education, learning In this episode, Kelly and Sean meet Bob and Julian from PyBit.es to discuss strategies, and how to seek advice and motivation when learning Python.

Bob is a driven Pythonista working as a software developer at Oracle.. Bob is passionate about automation, data, web development, code quality, and mentoring other developers.”

Julian is a Data Centre Technician at Amazon Web Services. He started coding a few years ago and codes for fun and to solve everyday projects.

Together they founded PyBites, a Python blog featuring code challenges, articles, and news.

Special Guests: Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira.

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  • PyBites – Hone Your Python Skills — Welcome to PyBites, a blog lovingly created by mates Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira. It serves as a medium for the two of them to document the lessons and concepts they learn as they delve into the wonderful world of Python. It's their hope that they'll be able to help other Python users along the way too!
  • PyBites Code Challenges | Hone Your Python Skills — Learn Python From the Comfort of Your Own Browser
  • #100DaysOfCode Official Website | #100DaysOfCode
  • pandas · PyPI — pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with structured (tabular, multidimensional, potentially heterogeneous) and time series data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool available in any language. It is already well on its way toward this goal.
  • Episode #140 Level up your Python with #100DaysOfCode challenge - [Talk Python To Me Podcast] — How do you learn libraries or parts of Python itself that you don't have actual work projects involving them? Whether that's SQLAlchemy, Slack bots, or map APIs, actually building projects (small and large) with them is really the only way to gain true competency. You might try a 100 days of Python code challenges. This week you'll meet Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira who created PyBites. The have done a few 100 days of code challenges and are here to share their experience and some concrete examples.
  • pytest · PyPI — The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.
  • requests · PyPI
  • Flask · PyPI
  • Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning: Michelle Zimmerman: 9781564847058: Amazon.com: Books — Kelly's reading this book about machine learning and AI right now.
]]> In this episode, Kelly and Sean meet Bob and Julian from PyBit.es to discuss strategies, and how to seek advice and motivation when learning Python.

Bob is a driven Pythonista working as a software developer at Oracle.. Bob is passionate about automation, data, web development, code quality, and mentoring other developers.”

Julian is a Data Centre Technician at Amazon Web Services. He started coding a few years ago and codes for fun and to solve everyday projects.

Together they founded PyBites, a Python blog featuring code challenges, articles, and news.

Special Guests: Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira.

Support Teaching Python

Links:

  • PyBites – Hone Your Python Skills — Welcome to PyBites, a blog lovingly created by mates Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira. It serves as a medium for the two of them to document the lessons and concepts they learn as they delve into the wonderful world of Python. It's their hope that they'll be able to help other Python users along the way too!
  • PyBites Code Challenges | Hone Your Python Skills — Learn Python From the Comfort of Your Own Browser
  • #100DaysOfCode Official Website | #100DaysOfCode
  • pandas · PyPI — pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with structured (tabular, multidimensional, potentially heterogeneous) and time series data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool available in any language. It is already well on its way toward this goal.
  • Episode #140 Level up your Python with #100DaysOfCode challenge - [Talk Python To Me Podcast] — How do you learn libraries or parts of Python itself that you don't have actual work projects involving them? Whether that's SQLAlchemy, Slack bots, or map APIs, actually building projects (small and large) with them is really the only way to gain true competency. You might try a 100 days of Python code challenges. This week you'll meet Bob Belderbos and Julian Sequeira who created PyBites. The have done a few 100 days of code challenges and are here to share their experience and some concrete examples.
  • pytest · PyPI — The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.
  • requests · PyPI
  • Flask · PyPI
  • Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning: Michelle Zimmerman: 9781564847058: Amazon.com: Books — Kelly's reading this book about machine learning and AI right now.
]]> Episode 9: Python For Future Engineers https://www.teachingpython.fm/9 8d61bb6f-50e2-4ab1-84c6-4a1848809ade Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500 Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes 9 Python For Future Engineers full Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes This week, we're joined by Peter Kazarinoff, Professor of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Portland Community College to discuss how adult learners can learn Python, the use of Jupyter notebooks as teaching tools, and some of the common goals of learners of diverse ages, backgrounds, and education levels. 1:01:06 no <p>This week, we're joined by <a href="https://pythonforundergradengineers.com/pages/about.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Peter Kazarinoff</a>, Professor of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Portland Community College to discuss how adult learners can learn Python, the use of Jupyter notebooks as teaching tools, and some of the common goals of learners of diverse ages, backgrounds, and education levels.</p> <p>Joined by your usual co-hosts, Kelly and Sean, we explore some of the different approaches needed for adult learners, the common traits needed for successful students of all ages, the materials that we've found most useful for teaching and learning, and some best practices for sequencing course material. Special Guest: Peter Kazarinoff.</p> teaching, college, adult learners, python This week, we're joined by Peter Kazarinoff, Professor of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Portland Community College to discuss how adult learners can learn Python, the use of Jupyter notebooks as teaching tools, and some of the common goals of learners of diverse ages, backgrounds, and education levels.

Joined by your usual co-hosts, Kelly and Sean, we explore some of the different approaches needed for adult learners, the common traits needed for successful students of all ages, the materials that we've found most useful for teaching and learning, and some best practices for sequencing course material.

Special Guest: Peter Kazarinoff.

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Joined by your usual co-hosts, Kelly and Sean, we explore some of the different approaches needed for adult learners, the common traits needed for successful students of all ages, the materials that we've found most useful for teaching and learning, and some best practices for sequencing course material.

Special Guest: Peter Kazarinoff.

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