Nikita Karamov is a Python developer and maintainer on various open source Python projects.
Some topics covered:
- Notes on university education in programming and engineering vs theory
- Jazzband for maintaining Django projects
- Contributing to open source makes you a better programmer
- Moving from Russia to Germany during college
- Cultural differences between Russia, Germany, and Oregon
- The nice lack of drama in the Python community
- A lack of universities teaching Python for web development
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