In a recent code review, I saw a bizarre habit. The author defended it so vehemently, I gave up on trying to explain the needless confusion it caused. The author was one of those "I always do it this way, and I'm always right." people, so nothing was gained by …
more ...It appears that I may have been doing the right thing in putting together Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design . Expertise is grown through "effortful study" of the material. Experts search through their long-term memory for applicable patterns, based on their study.
The idea of many exercises, each exposing a piece …
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This referred to the old Active State Programmers Network, ASPN, Python Cookbook. The code has been moved to the ActiveState Code site. Likely, the fact that it's Python 2 means it is no longer online.
Control Break Reporting is a design pattern that has been around since the earliest …
more ...I like Python for exploring unknown data [One More Cool Thing About Python ].
Anthony B. Coates [Homepage ] notes "I tried Python for a while for similar reasons. However, in my case I was a bit put off by the need to learn a another library API, which is not an …
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