[Tutor] Anti-Patterns in Python Programming

[Mark Lawrence]

On 12/07/2014 17:43, Deb Wyatt wrote:
>
>>> So much has been invented since my dos programming days and it is
>>> overwhelming,
>>
>> Actually very little has been *invented* since your DOS days.
>> Almost everything we do today was already around back then.
>>
> I knew someone was going to say that.  Maybe it's the jargon
> that has been invented?
>
> Some questions I have at the moment:
>
> 1.  What is functional programming?
> 2.  What is procedural programming?
> 3.  What are data patterns?
> 4.  What are regular expression?
>
> I worked for a private company for a while where I was the only
> programmer, then I worked for the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
> and then University of Washington, where I created and
> maintained database applications. I never heard of any of those
> things prior to the past few months since I started dipping my
> toes back in (more like total immersion, jeeze).  So maybe all
> this stuff has been around but I sure never heard of it.
>
> Almost every time I post a question on here, I get my hand
> slapped by someone, and the favorite thing for you all to say to
> newbies is "read the tutorial."  The tutorial is over our heads
> in a lot of cases because of the jargon, at least at first.  And
> so many times things are explained with C++ as an example.
>
> My favorite useless thing I have run across on the internet is
> the answer to what does hashable mean?  From stack overflow:
>
> "An object is hashable if it has a hash value which never changes
> during its lifetime (it needs a __hash__() method), and can be
> compared to other objects (it needs an __eq__() or __cmp__()
> method). Hashable objects which compare equal must have the same
> hash value."
>
> what is a hash value?  What's a _hash_() method (or any of those
> other methods)?
>
> You all take this understanding for granted, but it's not common
> knowledge for the rest of the world. I bet if I talked knitting
> and fiber jargon you all wouldn't understand much of what I was
> talking about lol.
>
> Sorry this is so long, but if this list is to be useful for people
> the information needs to be understandable by the lay person
> and maybe you all don't realize how much you take for granted.
>
> Deb in WA, USA
>

Start at wikipedia.  For Python specific terms see 
https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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