Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Meet your instructor: Michael Kennedy
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Finally, before we wrap up this chapter
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I just want to introduce myself.
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My name is Michael Kennedy, hello!
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Here I am, this is what I look like.
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You can find me on Twitter, where I'm @MKennedy.
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Super excited to be putting this course together for you
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and happy you're in it.
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So just a little bit about me
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I run the Talk Python to Me podcast.
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This is a podcast that's been going for four or five years
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and I interview many of the influential folks
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in the Python industry, from the people who create Python
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to people who use it at places like Instagram
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as well as, say, astronomers who are using it
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to understand the stars.
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So I have a pretty good spectrum of what people are doing
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and what they're up to with Python
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and how it's important to them
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and I'll try to convey that to you.
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Also, I happen to run another podcast called Python Bytes.
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This is like the weekly news in the Python space
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so if you want to stay up on that, you can subscribe to this.
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Both of these give me a lot of
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different sources to draw from
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to share with you throughout this course.
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Maybe most relevant, though
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is that I'm the founder and one of the principal authors
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at Talk Python Training, where you're taking this course.
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So this is me, welcome to the course.
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I'm happy to be here with you, let's get rolling.