[Edu-sig] Progamming advice.

[kirby urner]

Somewhat apropos:

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/03/patterns-in-python.html

I see Fowler getting mentioned a lot in this thread.  Below, a couple
more titles:


Jacob: Tests are the programmer's stone, transmuting fear into boredom
(Kent Beck, author of Test Driven Development). Build in time to write
tests. TDD = Test Driven Development. Jacob doesn't do it hardcore,
gets annoyed with the dogma. Read Code Complete, published by
Microsoft -- one of the best books ever. When you start down the
testing road, you're making a contract with yourself to not check in
code with broken tests.

That's from my write-up, (Jacob = Jacob Kaplan-Moss of Django dojo):

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/03/django-workshop.html

Kirby


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Christian Mascher
<christian.mascher at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Kirby is right: this is what you should be looking at.
>>
>> There's the design patterns literature, sometimes fun to just eyeball
>> so you get used to seeing patterns, even if different from the ones
>> described.
>
> Some IMHO really good books on the practical aspects of software design with
> agile languages are:
>
> Refactoring, by Martin Fowler. You have probably heard of this book.
>
> Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, by Kent Beck.
> A set of "rules" how to write cleaner code (in Smalltalk). I like it,
> because it adresses little, practical aspects like appropriate naming ("Role
> suggesting temporary variable name", , "Type suggesting parameter name")
> which can be applied to Python-code (weakly typed like Smalltalk). I am not
> aware of a similar book for Python. Does anyone?
>
> (Kent Beck also wrote a book on Test-Driven Delopment where he actually uses
> Python in the second part.)
>
> HTH
>
> Christian
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