connect four (game)

[nospam.Michael Torrie]

On 11/25/2017 06:00 AM, bartc wrote:
> And there's a quite lot left of the rest of the program to worry about too!
>
> If you add 'window()' at the end of the program, then it seems to run on
> Python 3. I'd play around with it first before thinking up strategies
> for testing it.

Actually, no.  Unit testing ideally should be done for each and every class as
they are being written (before they are written in fact), no matter how small
and trivial the class.  That way as you compose larger and larger units of
code, the chances of things being right is greater compared to doing it the
other way around.

You may argue that testing doesn't matter for his small game, written for his
own education and amusement.  The fact is that software in general is of
abysmal quality across the boards, and promoting a habit of unit testing is
good, even for trivial, home-grown stuff.