A mistake which almost went me mad

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Thu Mar 3 05:48:55 EST 2016


On 03/03/2016 10:43, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:26 AM ast <nomail at invalid.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> This has to be told
>>
>> I created a file pickle.py
>>
> 
>  You could stop there.
> 
> The number of times I've had to correct a student for naming their script
> "turtle.py".

A few teachers recently were discussing this on Twitter. One suggested
that his pupils always add their initials to whatever filename they use.
That tends to avoid this issue (as well as helping work out later whose
file is whose on things like Raspberry Pi).

TJG




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