The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern
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more ...Three terms that seem to cause confusion: Idempotence, Hysteresis and Deterministic. The subject came up during my webcast on the Five Kinds of Python Functions. We can use all three terms to describe a function. Two of them are relevant to common design questions in software. The third is a …
more ...There are times when a "micro framework" is actually useful. I wasn't easily convinced that this could be true. Big framework or die trying. Right? Maybe not so right. My primary example of a micro framework's value is a quick demo site to show how some API's are going to …
more ...In the forthcoming Functional Python Programming (https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/functional-python-programming) I was pressured by one of the technical reviewers to create a better example of composite function creation with decorators.
This was a difficult request. First, of course, "better" is poorly defined. More importantly, the example in the …
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more ...http://sophieclayton.github.io/2015-01-15-uw/novice/python/index.html A very nice tutorial. It's Focused on a specific problem. It covers the solution technology in some depth. I think the focus and depth features are important. It's often tempting to cover the technical features without really solving a problem. In …
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more ...How does one get started developing software? What's the first step?
When you come to this craft -- or sullen art -- without a background except as a user, how do you get started writing code?
It's not easy. Indeed, developing software may be one the hardest things there is. Really, really …
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