Teaching Python

Episode 153: 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

December 14th, 2025  |  40 mins 12 secs

3d printing, ai robots, calipers, chess, coding education, duolingo, educational technology, fei-fei li, gift guide, holiday gifts, hugging face, led projects, lego, maker tools, pybites, python education, robotics, secret coders

Sean, Kelly, and special guest Julian Sequeira from PyBites share their favorite gift ideas for coders, makers, educators, and curious kids. From hoverboards and 3D printers to coding platforms and chess-teaching apps, this episode covers gifts at every price point. The trio discusses hands-on tools like LED pucks and calipers for makers, educational picks like the Secret Coders book series and Dr. Fei-Fei Li's memoir "The Worlds I See," plus tech toys including the Spydroid Loco Hex robot and Hugging Face's Richtie Mini. Whether you're shopping for a student, a fellow teacher, or yourself, there's something here for everyone.

Episode 110: CircuitPython with Kattni Rembor

June 23rd, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

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It's no secret that we're huge fans of CircuitPython and the plethora of boards from Adafruit that make learning more tactile and colorful. We chat with friend of the show Kattni Rembor, a Creative Engineer sponsored by Adafruit to talk about her work with CircuitPython and the vibrant community that has sprung up around it.

Episode 98: Robotics with RobotLab

October 20th, 2022  |  49 mins 10 secs

coding, education, nao, robotics

The Teaching Python podcast speaks with Elad Inbar, founder of RobotLab and Robots for Education and how to improve student engagement by using robots.

Episode 77: The Power of Bots in the Computer Science Classroom

October 15th, 2021  |  46 mins 1 sec

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Episode 50: Teaching Robotics With Python

September 30th, 2020  |  30 mins 46 secs

hardware, python, robotics, teaching

This week, Sean & Kelly discuss how they are using Python to teach robotics in middle school, including the hardware and software it takes to get students thinking about how robots sense, process, and move in the world.

Episode 37: What Happens Behind The Scenes While Teaching Python

February 3rd, 2020  |  52 mins 16 secs

education, lego, python, robotics, teaching

It's not always easy to be a Python teacher. Whether it's trying to find the right words to explain something, handling severe frustration, building perseverance, or losing students while coding together, Python teachers are facing problems beyond just the code. Sean and Kelly discuss five of the things that frequently go wrong in the classroom and how we handle it.

Episode 1: Hello World

December 5th, 2018  |  31 mins 30 secs

coding for everyone, coding zen, differentiated learning, education, embracing what is uncomfortable, figuring things out, freedom to make mistakes, getting started, goal setting, information learning, iterative processes, mindset, problem-solving, python, reading for understanding, robotics, setting up your classroom, tynker, vr

Our very first episode! Kelly and Sean talk about how to get started teaching Python, including how to set up a room for computer science, what books and podcasts were most useful, the joys of Tynker, and how to set your own expectations for how to teach Python for others.