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#529: Computer Science from Scratch
Episode 529

#529: Computer Science from Scratch

Talk Python To Me ยท Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)

December 3, 20251h 17m

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Show Notes

A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David Kopec joins me to talk about rebuilding computer science for exactly those folks, the ones who learned to program first and are now ready to understand the deeper ideas that power the tools they use every day.

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