Talk Python To Me

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!

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).

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.

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.

This special episode is hosted by Jonathon Morgan.

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.

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.

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.

Do you have horribly convoluted things that need parsing? Obviously you'll learn a bunch of tips and tricks from this episode. But you'll see that advanced parsing is a gateway to many interesting computer science techniques.

When was the last time you used a 3rd party package in Python? Have you recently pip installed SQLAlchemy? Maybe looked up the documentation on a package you found on PyPI?

When was the last time you used a 3rd party package in Python? Have you recently pip installed SQLAlchemy? Maybe looked up the documentation on a package you found on PyPI?

Have you ever searched for a Python educational video? Maybe how to get started with Pyramid, or running queries with SQLAlchemy's ORM layer?

Algorithms underpin almost everything we do in programming and in problem solving in general. Yet, many of us have partial or incomplete knowledge of the most important and common ones. In this episode, you'll meet Adit Bhargava, the author of the light and playful Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide book.

The advances in Astronomy over the past century are both evidence of and confirmation of the highest heights of human ingenuity. We have learned by studying the frequency of light that the universe is expanding. By observing the orbit of Mercury that Einstein's theory of general relativity is correct.

NoSQL and document dbs like MongoDB have made building fast scalable software that is easy to evolve and maintain much easier for a broad class of applications. Embeddable, file-based databases like SQLite have made "shipping" an application requiring a database a no brainer. The database just runs in process so there is no setup or maintenance.