No disrespect, but Python is just so much better, in my opinion.Ġ3:58 Scheme is a very interesting learning language, but I think that one of the reasons for this transition was some pretty serious declining enrollment numbers in the computer science program, and so as part of this big revamp to make the program accessible to like diverse set of backgrounds, I think that there had been a sense previously that you really sort of needed to have already been programming in high school for you to really seriously consider doing it at university, and they wanted to open the door towards more diverse set of backgrounds and to make it also a more interdisciplinary curriculum. So, my first computer science class was also in Scheme, and I do wish it was in Python. An then my sort of the back half was in Python.Ġ3:47 Oh that's nice. What was your first programming class language?Ġ3:29 I was at MIT right when they were in the middle of this big transition from Scheme to Python, so my first couple of classes were in Scheme.
I wanted to try out what learning that toolkit felt like, and I ended up taking some computer science classes, I was pretty immediately hooked and ended up getting computer science degree and then also a CS Master's.Ġ3:26 That's cool.
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But I had a bunch of friends, I went to MIT and I had a bunch of friends who were pursuing computer science degrees while I was busy pursuing my chemistry degree, and you know, I would sort of look at them out of the corner of my eye, and I looked at what they were learning.Ġ2:57 And it seemed like they were really learning this toolkit, like they were learning a toolkit full of tools for solving many different types of problems in the world, and that seemed very attractive to me and also frankly, very different from what I was getting with my chemistry degree. And I actually have a chemistry degree, that's my first bachelor's degree. I was a big science nerd in high school and I actually declared chemistry as my first major. So, I was not one of those people who was programming since birth. You've been a long time sort of Python hero to me, I've seen some of your talks that you have done at conferences, and keynotes and they were really inspiring, so I'm excited to talk to you about this.Ġ2:12 So before we get into all the awesome stuff that you are doing, at the outer edge of the Python world, let's maybe take a step back and you could tell me a little bit about how you got into programming, and how you got into Python- what's your story?Ġ2:26 Yeah, absolutely.
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Her motto is "Be the change you want to see in the world", and she has been a director for the Python software foundation.Ġ1:54 Yeah, I'm really excited to have you on the show. She works at Dropbox, and enjoys the internet, networking, low level systems engineering, relational databases, tinkering on electronics projects and contributing to and helping others contribute to open source software. Jessica McKellar is a startup founder, software engineer, and open source developer living n San Francisco, California.
I don't have any news this week, so let's get right to the show. Thank them for supporting the show on Twitter where they are at and Hey everyone.
This is your host, Michael Kennedy, follow me on Twitter where I am at keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talkpythontome.fm and follow the show on Twitter via This episode is brought to you by Hired and Opbeat. It's number 30, recorded Thursday, September 24th, 2015.Ġ0:00 Welcome to Talk Python To Me, a weekly podcast on Python- the language, the libraries, the ecosystem and the personalities. She is the guest on this episode of Talk Python To Me. 00:00 What does it mean to be a leader in the Python community? Does it mean you contribute to open source projects? You speak at conferences? You start the largest user group? You write a book? You be a core contributor to the language? The answer is yes, and that's why Jessica McKellar won the Frank Willison award for contributions to the Python community.
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