Today I’m joined by Anthony Shaw, global senior vice president for talent transformation and innovation at NTT Ltd. Anthony is also a Real Python tutorial author and has written a new book titled CPython Internals.
In this interview, we discuss a variety of topics, including Python security, advice for beginner developers, and his love for the beach. So without further ado, let’s welcome Anthony.
Ricky: Thanks for joining me, Anthony. I’m glad you could join me for this interview. I’d like to start in the same manner we do with all our guests: how did you get into programming, and when did you start using Python?
Anthony: Hey, Ricky. Thanks for the opportunity to speak to the Real Python readers!
I got into programming in the early ’90s, learning how to write code for devices that were little more than programmable calculators. As a teen, I spent most of my income from a paper round on programming books and computer hardware.
I’m mostly self-taught, starting on some older BASIC-type languages and moving on to OOP languages like C++ and C#. I’d been working with C# .NET for about eight years and discovered Python while contributing to an open source project that needed support for an API I worked on at work.
I learned the basics of Python over a long weekend in 2010 and fell for the language’s flexibility in working with fluid data structures and natural way of using both object-oriented programming and procedural programming.
Ricky: You seem to have gained an interest in Python security lately, having written a PyCharm security plugin and a cross-site scripting library for Django. You even made a video on SQL injection. How are you finding your foray into infosec, and is this a permanent change of focus for you in your career?
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