[Edu-sig] UnitTest?

[kirby urner]

Yeah these are both good suggestions.

It's fun to throw maybe one or two examples of unittest into the mix, maybe
already written (so-called scaffolding).

But unless it's a course about programming / development and nothing more,
flogging unittest (aka PyUnit) might seem too much of a detour.

In the OST course, there's some doctest towards the end of Python 1, with
unittest the main opening topic of Python 2 (which also includes using MySQL
as a back end and the Tk GUI was a front end).

In a more purely math-oriented course, I still think of Sqlite as a great
place to stash polyhedrons in relational tables.  VPython is still my
favorite library for geometry topics, though I'm still a big fan of POV-Ray
after all these years.

http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html

http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/pymath.html

Kirby

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Vern Ceder <vceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think for most high-school level work, use of the "assert" statement
> would
> > be the first thing to teach.
>
> Doctests can also be good way to introduce the idea of testing. It's
> maybe a bit easier for beginners to grasp and a very natural Python
> technique.
>
> Vern
>
> > It can be used in an "if __name__ == '__main__': " construct in a module
> to
> > make a good quick test.
> >
> > see https://launchpad.net/romanclass as an example.
> >
> > Simple modules do not need anything as complex as unittest. It would be a
> > good advanced subject, though.
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