Episode 100: Celebrating Motivation (with @mkennedy & @brianokken)

After 100 episodes of Teaching Python, Kelly and Sean invite some friends of the show to share how they stay motivated.

We're joined by Michael Kennedy and [Brian Okken](twitter.com/brianokken) from the Python Bytes podcast to talk about the ways we stay motivated.

Listen in for tips and strategies from a variety of sources. How do you stay motivated?

Special Guests: Brian Okken and Michael Kennedy.

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• Python Bytes Podcast — Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken.
• Talk Python To Me Podcast — Talk Python To Me A podcast on Python and related technologies
• Test & Code in Python — ABOUT THE SHOW Topics include automated testing, testing strategy, software engineering practices, packaging, Python, pytest, data science, TDD, continuous integration, and software methodologies. Also anything I think helps make the daily life of a software developer more fun and rewarding. Hosted by Brian Okken
• Python Testing with pytest: Simple, Rapid, Effective, and Scalable: Okken, Brian: 9781680508604: Amazon.com: Books — Test applications, packages, and libraries large and small with pytest, Python's most powerful testing framework. pytest helps you write tests quickly and keep them readable and maintainable. In this fully revised edition, explore pytest's superpowers - simple asserts, fixtures, parametrization, markers, and plugins - while creating simple tests and test suites against a small database application. Using a robust yet simple fixture model, it's just as easy to write small tests with pytest as it is to scale up to complex functional testing. This book shows you how.

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