It appears that Michael only sent this to me when I think he meant to send
it to the list...
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From: "Michael Shiloh"
Date: Dec 21, 2014 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Learning to program, not code. [LONG RESPONSE!]
To: "boB Stepp"
Cc:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014
On 21/12/14 09:21, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
Don't postpone writing unittests (don't use doctest).
But do wait till you know what you will be testing.
You can't write a unit test until you have a unit in mind.
The OP seems to be struggling to figure out what units
he needs. Once he has done tha
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:15:43 +1100
Ben Finney wrote:
> Use a distributed version control system
> (Mercurial is good and is written in Python)
I'm beginning to really appreciate [fossil](http://fossil-scm.org/).
Re: "Learning to program, not code". Is that like learning to think rather than
Albert-Jan Roskam writes:
> Don't postpone writing unittests (don't use doctest). They really give
> you focus and confidence (peace of mind!).
Excellent advice. Write unit tests as a way of documenting what you want
the function to do, and also to document what the function did wrong
in that bu
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 3:30 AM CET Dave Angel wrote:
>On 12/20/2014 08:16 PM, Brandon Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> I'm 28 years old, currently unemployed and not in school until fall of
>> 2015 as a junior. I picked up python a little under a year ago, with the
>> hopes that I
>
> I'm 28 years old, currently unemployed and not in school until fall of
> 2015 as a junior. I picked up python a little under a year ago, with the
> hopes that I could make a career out of programming - when I finish school
> that is. So, as of right now you could say it's a hobby, however, I
