Chapter 18. Nick Coghlan
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Nick Coghlan is an Australian software developer and systems architect. His past roles include software engineer at Boeing Australia and senior software engineer at Red Hat Asia Pacific, a provider of open source solutions. Nick is a CPython core developer and BDFL-delegate for Python packaging interoperability standards. He is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF)'s Python Packaging Working Group, and the founder of the PyCon Australia Education Seminar. Over the past 20 years, Nick has contributed to a range of open source systems and software projects.
Photo credits of Nick Coghlan: © Kushal Das
Discussion themes: core developers, PEPs, learning Python.
Catch up with Nick Coghlan here: @ncoghlan_dev
Mike Driscoll: What made you decide to become a computer programmer?
Nick Coghlan: Originally, I just did programming as a plaything as a kid. We had the good old BASIC programming book for the Apple IIe.
It wasn't until...