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This is a "Yay! It's PyCon 2019" episode. PyCon is very important to me. But it's kinda hard to put a finger on why. So I figured I'd ask more people to help explain why it's important. I ask a few simple questions to people about Python and PyCon and get some great insights into both the language popularity and the special place this conference holds to many people.Sponsored By:Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month and be the first to know when new episodes come out. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Some typical technical interview practices can be harmful and get in the way of hiring great people. April Wensel offers advice to help fix the technical interview process. She recommends: hire for mindset and attitude look for empathy and mentorship skills allow candidates to show their strengths instead of hunting for weaknesses have the candidate leave feeling good about themselves and your company, regardless of the hiring decision Some topics discussed: interview questions to bring out stories of skills and successes stereotype threat diversity interview hazing white boards coding challenges unconscious bias emotional intelligence myth of talent shortage pair programming and collaboration during interviews mirrortocracy cultural add vs cultural fit empathy mentoring This episode is important for anyone going into a technical interview, as a candidate, as a hiring manager, or as a member of an interview team.Special Guest: April Wensel.Sponsored By:Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month and be the first to know when new episodes come out.Links:Compassionate CodingLeave Your “Gut” Out of Hiring DecisionsIf You Can Use a Fork, You’re “Technical” — April WenselProject Include ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nina Zakharenko gives some great advice about giving tech talks. We talk about a blog series that Nina wrote called "The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks". This episode is full of great help and encouragement for your own public speaking adventures. Some of what we discuss: overcoming the fear of public speaking breathing and pausing during talks planning your talk as well as planning your time to get ready for the talk writing proposals and getting feedback on proposals Nina's talk in PyCascades on programming Adafruit chips types of talks that are often rejected pre-recording demos to avoid live demo problems why you should speak, even if you are an introvert benefits of public speaking a super cool announcement at the end Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.Sponsored By:PyBites Code Challenges: Self-contained Python Code Challenges you can code and verify in the browser. Links:The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks — Nina's series of posts with lots of advice on giving excellent tech talks.Azure for Python developers — Tutorials, API Reference | Microsoft DocsHow to Do a Deep, Diaphragmatic Belly BreathingExample accepted and rejected conference talk proposals — Nina's examplesAllison Kaptur's PyCon Proposal examplesEmily Morehouse's proposal examples.Brandon Rhodes' example PyCon talk proposalsNina's PyCascades talk on Python and LEDs — PyCascades – Light Up Your Life – With Python and LEDs, starts at 13:26.Nina has a keynote at PyCon 2019 — woohoo! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dane and Brian discuss skills needed for people that become software developers from non-traditional paths. Dane is also writing a book to address many of these skill gaps, Code Like a Pro, that's currently in an early access phase. Use code podtest&code19 to get a discount. And, sign up as a Friend of the Show to enter for a chance to win a free copy of the eBook version. We also discuss the writing process, testing with a multi-language stack, music, art, photography, and more.Special Guest: Dane Hillard.Sponsored By:Python Morsels: Level up your Python skills with challenges and expert advice.Links:Dane HillardCode Like a Pro — Dane's bookNoiselyLittle Leviathan — Dane's musicDane Hillard Photography — Dane's photographyNvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wrote the seminal software development book, The Pragmatic Programmer. Together they founded The Pragmatic Programmers and are well known as founders of the agile movement and authors of the Agile Manifesto. They founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing business in 2003. The Pragmatic Bookshelf published it's most important book, in my opinion, in 2017 with the first pytest book available from any publisher. Topics: The Pragmatic Programmer, the book The Manifesto for Agile Software Development Agile methodologies and lightweight methods Some issues with "Agile" as it is now. The GROWS Method Pragmatic Bookshelf, the publishing company How Pragmatic Bookshelf is different, and what it's like to be an author with them. Reading and writing sci-fi novels, including Conglommora, Andy's novels. Playing music. Special Guest: Andy Hunt.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for an extended 4 month trial before deciding which version you need. If you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

With conventional TDD, you write a failing test, get it to pass, then refactor. Then run the tests again to make sure your refactoring didn't break anything. But what if it did break something? Kent Beck has been recommending to commit your code to revision control after every green test run. Oddmund Strømme suggested a symmetrical idea to go ahead and revert the code when a test fails. Kent writes that he hated the idea, but had to try it. Then wrote about it last September. And now we have TCR, "(test && commit) || revert". What's it feel like to actually do this? Well, Thomas Deniffel has been using it since about a month after that article came out. In this episode, we'll hear from Thomas about his experience with it. It's a fascinating idea. Have a listen and let me know what you think.Special Guest: Thomas Deniffel.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for an extended 4 month trial before deciding which version you need. If you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links:test && commit || revert — Kent Beck's original articleTCR: (test && commit || revert). How to use? Alternative to TDD? — Thomas Deniffel's articleTCR Variants (test && commit || revert)TCR: A pulverizer for coding tasks — Another interesting opinion from someone else trying TCR - Jason Crawford(test && commit || revert) Questions Answered — Written after this interview. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In today's episode we talk with Kelly Paredes & Sean Tibor. They teach Python in a middle school in Florida, and talk about this experience on the podcast "Teaching Python". I love that they include physical computing right from the start, and everything else they are doing. It's a fun interview.Special Guests: Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for an extended 4 month trial before deciding which version you need. If you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links:Teaching Python ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I was recently interviewed on a podcast called "IT Career Energizer Podcast". Phil Burgess is the host of the podcast, and it was a lot of fun. I think it turned out well, and I wanted to share it with you here, with Phil's permission, of course.Special Guest: Phil Burgess.Links:IT Career Energizer Podcast ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Is it ok to have more than one assert statement in a test? I've seen articles that say no, you should never have more than one assert. I've also seen some test code made almost unreadable due to trying to avoid more than one assert per test. Where did this recommendation even come from? What are the reasons? What are the downsides to both perspectives? That's what we're going to talk about today.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for an extended 4 month trial before deciding which version you need. If you value your time, you owe it to yourself to try PyCharm. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links:Twitter survey about multiple asserts/checks — Are multiple asserts/checks ok in an automated test?Multiple Asserts Are OK - Bill Wakepytest-check: A pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I want you to get the most out of being a software developer, or test engineer, or whatever you do that makes this podcast relevant to your life. By "get the most" I mean: the most fun the most value more career options probably more responsibility maybe even more money, that'd be cool I want you to start (or continue) studying and practicing your skills. But not just random practice, I've got a strategy to help you focus what to study. Why am I talking about this now? Here's some background on how I re-learned how to have fun with code refactoring through code challenges. I'm going to write up the whole list as a blog post, which I'll share first with my Patreon Supporters, second with my email list and slack channel and then as an actual post somewhere.Sponsored By:PyBites Code Challenges: Self-contained Python Code Challenges you can code and verify in the browser. Links:practicing-programming - Steve Yegge — essayThe Ultimate Code Kata - Jeff AtwoodTeach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter NorvigPyBites Code Challenges — Hone your Python Skills, in the browserCheckiO — JavaScript & Python challengesExercism — code practiceCodewars — Train with Programming Challenges/Kata Python Morsels — Challenges emailed to you once a weeksubreddit of code challenges ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★