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

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

I want to introduce myself and also share with

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

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

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

enjoying presenting new ideas to my students. That would

make them question what they already knew. That experience lead

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

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

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

going to use the Python programming language to create a bunch

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

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

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

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

be you. We will write a program that schedules

breaks throughout the day, reminding that individual to listen to

music, get up and dance to their favorite song,

or just walk away from the computer every once in

awhile. Another one is called project profanity editor. Imagine

you get an email from your boss, requesting your help

with something. You reply, I can take a shot

at it but accidentally you end up including an awkward

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

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

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

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

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