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> 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
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 3:30 AM CET Dave Angel wrote:
>On 12/20/2014 08:16 PM, Brandon Dorsey wrote:
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>> 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
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, 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
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
It appears that Michael only sent this to me when I think he meant to send
it to the list...
-- Forwarded message --
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
