Creator of Python Programming Language, Guido van Rossum | Oxford Union

[@esjihn]

So great to be living during a time where these original inventors are alive.

[@stevebez8284]

directors cat waz qui2?

[@chadmcdowell7999]

If you look up python on Google it shows him in a orange shirt I thought he went crazy and did something illegal lol

[@blakasmurf]

Nothing like writing Python while I listen to the guy who invented it 😊

[@blakasmurf]

@Not Convinced What people don't mention nowadays is being a woman lowers your expected competence level significantly. So women tend to get hired at much, much lower proficiency level than men. And end up with people like me coaching them. When if I were in their position I wouldn't even get hired!!!! 🤬😡🤬

[@watcher5232]

He has so much energy and the audience is just like a piece of towel in water

[@chrisogonas]

I agree!

[@stevebez8284]

@@chrisogonas hi marks outa10 mustv bin long pilgrimace!

[@jayjohn9680]

Give them all energy drinks😮

[@pvsskate]

Guido: "I got this close to dropping out because I enjoyed my part time programming job so mu-" Interviewer: "RIGHT SO MOVING ON"

[@rakimcraig2556]

lmaoooo

[@fwd79]

hahahaha 😂😂😂

[@tomwright9904]

:) "Violates my values too much"

[@stevebez8284]

@@tomwright9904 an0lojinx buk starb fawkes tungianz?

[@jsnadrian]

"will open source become obsolete?" wtf kind of question is that

[@vroomik]

or "what's the difference working for big vs small company" who the hell prepared those questions?

[@arturfil]

Yeah "obsolete" was a poor choice of words, I guess she wanted to say scarce...? But still I doubt we see scarcity of open source projects and technologies

[@sivakumar-mu3wj]

She has no idea

[@stevebez8284]

@@sivakumar-mu3wj def 0-pen source en

[@chrisogonas]

What a cold audience! Was it a eulogy or a conversation with an outstanding achiever? Kudos Van Rossum!!!

[@chitownblues]

He is so much more humble than I expected him to be. Exactly the kind of person who should be a language's BDFL.

[@johnsflores]

Python is a beautiful language. It's also nice to see that Guido is a great human too. Maybe I'll write some python today.

[@winsomehax]

Python is a mess. It's fine for knocking up a few line script. Writing anything more ambitious ends up running into the same problem as javascript but without the odd cools bits and even more frustration. Duck typing, get used to seeing the word 'self' in your code and for people crying 'not pythonic' because they made up a bunch of conventions to justify their bizarre and hazardous choices. Oh and __init__ ...seriously... falling over at run-time with errors that a non-toy language would have spotted at compile time... and don't forget that reformatting your code becomes an explosive issue because someone decided that spaces/tabs isn't just an aesthetic issue. Python belongs in the dustbin of failed experiments.

[@MMABeijing]

@@winsomehax never heard such a negative opinion about the language. what is ur language of choice, if i may ask

[@wideningcarrot6]

@@winsomehax bruh

[@seanlestermiranda]

@@MMABeijing he prefer english than python xD hes coding with english

[@MMABeijing]

@@seanlestermiranda makes perfect sense now, thx

[@goranjosic]

Python has been my hobby I have enjoying for two years - and I love it a lot. I enjoy solving problems with Python. I am currently learning to work on neural networks with python. I cannot thank this man enough for giving us one of the best tools in the world.

[@stevebez8284]

mark pilgrim 'dive into'?[cathedral/bazaars?]

[@shankee1987]

On one side there are many of us who just spend all our lives just trying to wrap our heads around the already existing programming languages, how they work, how a compiler works and so on ,while on the other side there are these people who just invent a new programming language just like that: I am always amazed how these people conceptualise and bring it to work..... How do their brains run in a manner to achieve all this....

[@syedkashifnaqvi7617]

I'm working in python last 3 years but i'm still learning python. I feel enjoy when learning python now move my career to data science world.

[@user-zb6lg1xj3k]

“...lost my thread of thought” Spoken like a true robot

[@user-zb6lg1xj3k]

first Impression perhaps a really good one attempting to appear hooman

[@mauriciojimenez7704]

not really thread safe

[@user-zb6lg1xj3k]

first Impression *attempting

[@stevebez8284]

@@egonkirchof only if builden dialectric autombile en demands? ['we didnt start the fiat']brews lee?[kungus few=jenkts'pirates/carribean'dneipier/elektronka/doopolz/dootcherz? walter raleights da vinci bycycles?

[@alexandertrubitsin7987]

Very nice person, apart of speech itself, very respectful and open. Appreciate his approach and attitude towards community 👍

[@marwinsteiner5817]

Someome else already mentioned this but I'll say it again -- it's so cool to be listening to these people talk when they are still around. That's like being able to listen to Einstein when he was still around, or Claude Shannon, or any of the other legends in STEM.

[@jwuhome]

This guy inspires me to write a new language to take over the world. I will be back in 50 yrs.

[@Chartered]

Remained me 50 years

[@muhammadjitu7146]

Maybe the comment every people expected in their minds 😅😅😅 to write down

[@nitinsingla7967]

This is going to be gold.

[@GinoNL]

Bubbly Srinath Holland first 😉

[@cryptodeveloper]

A.I first.

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

Python first 🧐

[@techcode_man]

Thank you Guido for giving the world Python!

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

Agree

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

If its not Python. I would have dead with C++ or Java. Python is my life savior. Im good with Programming Language but I'm not good with Programming. Im 24 its too late for my career. hope I will improve. anyway thanx Guido.

[@OGpiranha]

1:37 when they realized this wasn't going to be a talk about snakes

[@shashankkothari8066]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dentonhess5810]

LMAO

[@diogeneslantern18]

It's 1:34AM and I am absolutely cackling 😂

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

I meet this man at North Bay Python Conference 2019 and boy the talk we had was the inspiration i needed to create my own programming language.

[@immaterialscout6177]

hows your own programming language development going? (genuinely curious)

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

@@immaterialscout6177 Finished the prototype now I am going through testing.

[@kasiditauable]

i heard that this guy saves lots of lives

[@BurgerKingHarkinian]

@むく lol

[@fahimzahir9587]

I’ve seen a better crowd and interview at “lower tier” colleges. They didn’t seem interested at all.

[@Miguelocod]

the crowd is very bad, so silent

[@zerberus1097]

what do you expect, girls throwing their bras at him?

[@fahimzahir9587]

Juri Wolkow No, it was just a passive interview. The students didn’t seem like they knew who he was or seemed interested and it was just a platform to push another political angle instead of a genuine interview.

[@tomwright9904]

So you have to pay to join the union and they are more based on debating. My understanding is that there are a lot of law / history types and fewer maths / science types.

[@tomwright9904]

@Cheesy Helmet hmm kind of judgmental .. maybe true on average.

[@ji94games]

Mr. Rossum's contribution to AI is so underrated. I'm glad to learn his work and interviews while he is still around. HUGE respect and I hope to learn everything from him before his time is up.

[@alejomedina6588]

Thank you Oxford for sharing this knowledge

[@DoubleAAmazin]

Thank god for indentation, perfect language for someone with OCD

[@chuckitaway466]

I had no idea about this guy and I'm studying Python now. So strange no one mentions him in courses I've done

[@cabc74]

The python examples use the name Guido a lot

[@shiskeyoffles]

Same. Never heard of him.

[@chuckitaway466]

@Tony Lewis Evil Santa comment was on the money

[@diogeneslantern18]

@Evil robot Santa Claus for sure. I have just started python this year and I'm going through the online bootcamps, but I already have a ton of books and it's clear that there is a TON more substance to the books - alas, I don't want to hop back and forth

[@surajbhandari9720]

Now python is increasing day by day and from past years it always ranked in top third. Hopefully someday it will be at no. 1 and irreplaceable.

[@Ambrozekwerondaa]

This is a nice generation to live in. Living with legends

[@k_drive]

everyone: i lost my train of thought dude who wrote a programming language as a hobby: i lost my thread of thought

[@maria6451]

Such a great and inspiring person

[@ar-oy7ok]

Such a cool dude! I'm an electronics + Assembly + Forth + C guy. This dude makes me wanna learn Python.

[@speakingfreely6770]

The lady interviewing is clueless and not even remotely technical. She seems so lost and confused. They couldn't find one technical woman to interview this gentleman? And then they ask why women are not getting into programming? Because you don't care enough to find a good technical woman to conduct an interview.

[@stevebez8284]

information absolute

[@francisthetort]

I remember sitting next to him in Caltrain and texting my friends "I'm sitting next to Guido himself!" and they didn't believe me!

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

Wow. Can I be your friend in LinkedIn or something 🙁

[@leonhardeuler9839]

You should have asked for a selfie

[@arjunvarga7694]

Happy New Year!

[@switchlite44]

I've got to be honest I'm a huge wrestling fan and don't know crap about computers I'm starting to learn about Python and what it does I want to thank all the nerds for accepting me into their community. I promise to not do damage, I just want to learn

[@hamzaiqbal7860]

43:22 Guy On The Front Row Continuously Raises His Hand For Asking Question But The Lady Never Responds To His Query And Ignoring Them. That Level Of Rejection Hurts.

[@tomasramilison]

excellent news about the optimization of Python :)

[@Maria_farah]

This guy look some nice kind guy he's trying to answer very clear

[@colinmaharaj]

32:44 I agree don't use C++ as an intro course to programming use C instead.

[@tomasderner7511]

Why not assembly? Or even better, why don't the students build their own computers first?

[@ekrem_dincel]

@@tomasderner7511 they should start from transistors.

[@adamcal4257]

We were taught Python.

[@Cant_Hit_This7]

Fuck C, all my homies use punch cards

[@jamikemichelohia2615]

Legend says this guy's a dutch

[@matanbenmoshe91]

In the thumbnail he looked like "The Professor" from "Casa De Papel"

[@genesismoore433]

you're onto something...

[@yollopukki6998]

Thank you for the great talk!

[@JobsAdvisor]

Audiance is dead or what? come on greatest person on the planet in front of you? When you will praise him or feel proud when he will be dead? then most people will say omg he was greatest of all time.. First time dead audiance in front of Great Programmer.

[@Space-Audio]

Open source is peer reviewed software. It is superior for the same reason that peer reviewed science is better.

[@mprokgaming5854]

Thanks my teacher 😍😘

[@georgettebeulah4427]

This explanation explains so much at what we are looking for. 😶😶😑😅

[@eugenetcgcomputer-guy6103]

The guy at the front row must have been really mad for not getting the opportunity to ask his question. Sadly all good things come to an end. Guido also seems pretty nerdy as he stated earlier - and yet open to new ideas. That's why i think Python is at where it is. If given the question would have loved to ask Guido why he chose the name Python - what inspired him to do so, the implications of doing so and finally if he somewhat regretted naming it as "Python".

[@DanielJ0nes]

It comes from Monty Python, which Guido was (and still is, I'd imagine) a big fan of. :)

[@KrishnaDasPC]

Open source will never become obsolete.

[@NicolasUnger]

Why is everyone sitting looking to the center? The most awkward position to watch someone talk at the stage

[@colonelkk]

Nicolas Unger It is supposed to be arranged like Parliament, and during debates people speak from both sides at each other

[@pierman4858]

I don't get all the negativity about the woman interviewer. Maybe some people would have prefered it to be more technical. But for me as a newbie I found it an interesting interview.

[@akliluabay95]

am still has not good at any programming language , but am plan in 2020 to a Python programmer . thanx all

[@HAZLNUTZ19]

yes i'm damaged for life

[@qwad6203]

Hats off.. ..master of geeks.....

[@ososirgo]

Es difícil predecir, pero pienso igual que el muchacho que hizo la ultima pregunta, la tendencia será a ser más accesible, más natural la programación (esto está sucediendo en todas las áreas no sólo en la programación de computadoras), la cuestión es como se use para resolver problemas de gran complejidad. Tal como Guido dijo no previo que Python se fuera a usar en áreas como el aprendizaje de máquinas, todo dependerá de la propia industria, del mercado de trabajo y sus usuarios...

[@YGNCode]

Love the conversation

[@Ben-vu1nb]

For those who don't know, this man is right up there with Dennis Ritchie (C), his language, along with others, have changed, and are changing, the world.

[@wnjustdoit]

Life is short, using Python!

[@salserokorsou]

I'm starting this coding journey with C. How much therapy am I gonna need? 😂

[@pbeeby]

Legend !!

[@bobkmak3470]

If Guido made Python, what Lang did they write Guido in?

[@ernstraedecker6174]

Dutch.

[@felipegomes6312]

He was written in 5619 DNA Assembly

[@frodobaggins3974]

Many people forget that this guy speaks fluent assembly, not to mention his excellent command of C, and that he can write directly in machine code because he understands so well what the machine does. Think about it for a second - learning IT and pushing the field forward cannot be done by people who speak Python, C# or Java only. If you are an IT student, please learn the basics! If you're a user - a non IT person who uses Python as a tool - great - welcome on board. But if you consider yourself to be an IT specialist - Python is not your toy! Otherwise in 20 years there will be no one left on the planet who knows how a computer works.

[@kcvinu]

Guido, any plans to make a new programming language which can embed python easily ?

[@SkyFly19853]

He is right about C++ ! Same thing almost happened to me when I was at college intro to programming!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

What u bcame a gr8 C++ programer?

[@SkyFly19853]

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 No, it was just a introduction to Programming Languages by C++...

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

@@SkyFly19853 Those ppl who's entry to programing world starts with C/C++ end up in one of two schools: 1) I hate C/C++ school. 2) C/C++ is closest to my heart school. Which one is u?

[@SkyFly19853]

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 It was one of colleges which I went to a long time ago... So, right now, the way they teach has changed...

[@iiVEVO]

c++20 is smexy

[@ramdas363]

The bit about women in coding shows how even highly intelligent people can fall for this identity folly. So they got all these female speakers now but the actual core dev community is still overwhelmingly male. Indicating despite all the efforts they make and even using selection bias against men when mentoring, women simply aren't interested as much as men in this role. And they probably made the conferences worse by getting token speakers chosen based on their identity instead of based on their expertise in the actual topic the conference is about. Thus leaving us collectively worse off in the name of supposed equality.

[@insurmountablemind2467]

Why is it that, often times the most intellectual people have been alone

[@Alfonso6143]

Excelente vídeo saludos

[@carletonai6597]

I was waiting for her to ask him why did you create Python, but she never did!

[@carletonai6597]

@Mesophyl May be!

[@ReadWithTshepho]

I did c++ at university and it definitely damaged me for life - it made me hate coding in general.

[@andrii5054]

This interviewer portrays result of affirmative action and leftism perfectly

[@joxa6119]

He is the King.

[@johnwick3321]

He wears glasses. He can't see sharp. Maybe that's why he created python.

[@Tux0xFF]

that will be James Gosling

[@kamilbabayev3432]

I think you should visit your doctor

[@hv1461]

Respect

[@dsclips900]

You are the Hero!! Python the only language that makes sense in 21st century!

[@GinoNL]

BC 123 well that wasn’t neccesary

[@bumbaclotboi4476]

BC 123 That is extremely racist, what make you think that? And if he is fake, who cares if he is a pedophile? He never existed

[@umairalvi7382]

@BC 123 you piece of shitt without having knowledge of any religion how could you speak so cruel and blaphemous words.You dont have any right to speak such words regarding any religion understand,this is a platform to spread knowledge and not hatred.

[@Mallick7]

@ BC, you are welcome to answer his personal technical comments with similar technical comments of yours. Don’t you have any?

[@liamtubsy3767]

@BC 123 You are an idiot. How could you generalise an entire creed? There are just as terrible christians as there are muslims. Open your mind, mate!

[@vladm.6859]

Disgusting how he brings identity bullshit into programming

[@glenr5461]

Brilliant man

[@dark4krad]

Who else thinks that Requests should be in the standard library of Python? I think it is such an incredibly userful package.

[@20thCB]

No...it changes too quickly. Standard library only changes with each release of Python.

[@dark4krad]

@@20thCB that's true too but it would be so cool to have something that powerful in the standard library. But it works just fine as a stand alone too tbo

[@gustavolacruzmartinez6116]

Amo a este sujeto

[@slatanek]

Okay, opression talk incoming at 17:00. That's it for me

[@MMABeijing]

second time he does it in talks. fuck him

[@chrishelm1]

Because oppression doesn’t exist and the world is equal. Ok 👌🏾

[@slatanek]

@@chrishelm1 Because I get sick of hearing privileged people talk about oppression from a moral high ground. Neither Guido nor a Oxford student nor any of the celebrities that love to talk about it nowadays have anything new to say about it. Neither of them is actually doing anything about it even tho these are the people that have actual influence over things (an Oxford student less so obviously).

[@Moha.ilcac_]

How many times did he say sortof

[@Schecter1989]

I'm 42min in and the guy with the curly hair on the right has yet to be picked to answer a question... This is stressing me tf out right now.

[@adamploof3528]

Yeah, I was rooting for that guy too :)

[@dennisasamoah2213]

You gave me a future

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

I think those who has no interest on computer "eww nerd" stuff should at least study Python. They will have a different perspective of their life.

[@Jatin-nr1bj]

OMG! worst interview ever. This man invented fckin python. Ask him about future of technology, role of AI etc.. He is not a social scientist that you ask about women role in STEM fields. The interviewer was more concerned about asking her set of questions rather making the event more attractive. Also, people saying that the crowd being like dead towel in water and uninterested. Oxford crowd has always been like that. They listen super intensively.

[@MsFearco]

Wow this guy is so cool. I mean. Super nerd. But in a cool way :D

[@ChandreshKumar-ve3iq]

its a most popular language now

[@liorbm1]

He just said that Python Programmers are not "professional" ? 15:10

[@David-2501]

19:33 "the number of talks by women at PyCon was changed from 1% of talks was by a woman speaker to 40% was talks given by women speakers" So women are now vastly over represented at PyCon as speakers, as women are somewhere between 11.7% and 20% of the programming population: insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 (check 'Gender Minorities by Country') Will you do something about this obvious injustice or nah?

[@BasedBooksYT]

I had to fast-forward through this PC BS part. Purely politics, not about coding at all.

[@vdofficialchannel9841]

The creator of Python is a true definition of GOD!

[@AceHardy]

👑

[@official_lpt]

What inspired the name 'Python?'

[@kushalneo]

Monty Python BBC

[@nandanm3826]

Respected sir, Good day, happy new year 2020. Kindly let me know about any employment opportunities to work along with you, it'll be my privilege. Thank you for sharing.🙏

[@gnuemacs1166]

Nandan M python is for women, are you a woman, sorry all positions are filled, next

[@nandanm3826]

@@gnuemacs1166 Thank you. You've a great collection of homes. It's nice.

[@SuperBhavanishankar]

Nandan bro. it doesn't work like that im sorry but its true. learn AI and create a project that amazes the world. That's how it works. Its not easy mate. try if doesn't work atleast you learned something. good luck.

[@diogeneslantern18]

YES

[@eunusmondal]

He is the hero.

[@shalinisahnimankatalia5305]

What i wanna ask is that how did you learn about digital electronics when you were young ? On your own from where? You didn't hire a teacher or something right ?

[@effexon]

I suspect those hobby kits for kids had good instructions and were simple enough to help learning.

[@ЦзинКэ-ы5х]

Where is my switch...case operator, Guido?

[@ernstraedecker6174]

In the dustbin, next to do... while...

[@fwd79]

Open Source becoming obsolete? Ignorant question indeed, but don't blame because it is perhaps not interviewers field. It is the **closed** sourced software that is going out, Microsoft, the monster of closed source, has gone Open Source and Visual Studio Code, Windows Terminal and other softwares are examples of Giants bowing to Open Source.

[@miweru]

I would have hoped the talk to being a bit more political. So it was not very technical as it would have been interesting to learn what language design desicions were made for witch reasons instead of saying that is was like his gut feeling, at least from a technical point of view. On the other handsite, it seems to be a very big problem how emotional affected people get for changing tiny parts of a programming language and this emotion turns into hatred. So maybe it would have been interesting what steps cold be taken to make this culture more open. So here i think the talk was not detailed enough. But thanks for organising and uploading these talks (sorry for my bad english)

[@sharofiddinallaberdiev5805]

Where do I start from if I want to learn Python language from the beginning with quickly process? Which book is compatible. Please leave your comments if you have good experience or results. I appreciate it...

[@slatanek]

Sharofiddin Allaberdiev try the Head First series of books, there should be one for Python too. Otherwise any tutorial for total beginners on yt will do

[@gabrielgonzalez1998]

Hello, I highly recommend to bookmark these: www.freecodecamp.org/ -- Go to the bottom, click in python tutorial and check the 4 hours youtube video. www.w3schools.com -- Here you can start to learn python on your own the easy way :) A recommended Book: Learn python 3 the hard way. You will learn everything you need to know from these webpages. Try not to lose yourself since there is a lot of information related to python.

[@furqancs]

Print ("let's fuc*ing go")

[@MiaTheDreamer]

Are you looking for a programming language to learn ? Well Python is the solution.. 😀

[@mprokgaming5854]

I know to phython language code

[@bsuperbrain]

keep in mind if you watch some data science (lol) course on the internet you do not become a software engineer, even a python programmer