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Hi! My name is Kunal and I'm delighted that

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you are considering this course. Now, before we dive in,

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I want to introduce myself and also share with

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you two reasons why I'm really excited to teach this

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course. First, I love teaching. Before joining Udacity, I

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was a sixth-grade science teacher in India. I remember really

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enjoying presenting new ideas to my students. That would

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make them question what they already knew. That experience lead

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me to pursue a Master's Degree from the School of

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Education at Stanford University. The second reason, is that I love

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to create things with programming. Now, in this course, we are

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going to use the Python programming language to create a bunch

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of projects. And my hope is that you would want to

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share these projects with your friends. Here are some of them.

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The first one, is project take a break. Do you know

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a friend who works too many hours? Hint, that person could

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be you. We will write a program that schedules

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breaks throughout the day, reminding that individual to listen to

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music, get up and dance to their favorite song,

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or just walk away from the computer every once in

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awhile. Another one is called project profanity editor. Imagine

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you get an email from your boss, requesting your help

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with something. You reply, I can take a shot

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at it but accidentally you end up including an awkward

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word. Oops. We will write a short Python program that detects curse

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words and saves you from embarrassing moments in the future. The final project

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is project movie databases. In this project we will learn how to make an awesome

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webpage, that lists your favorite movies, and shows their trailers. [SOUND]

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