[Tutor] Long post: Request comments on starting code and test code on chess rating project.
Neil Cerutti
neilc at norwich.edu
Tue Aug 15 10:09:13 EDT 2017
On 2017-08-13, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> REPORT GENERATION
>
> There are a variety of reports that I would like to be able to
> print to screen or paper. Things such as a "Top x List" of
> rated players, full rating list sorted from highest rating to
> lowest, rating lists for the current school year only or a
> particular past school year, and so. I could see wanting to
> sort such lists by various criteria depending on the type of
> report I would like to generate. Currently this section of the
> program is a big gray area for me, but I see no reason why my
> two dictionaries cannot be manipulated to pull the desired
> results for each imagined type of report.
You really can do it, but to me this requirement argues for going
back to a database backend. Why rewrite SQL?
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Neil Cerutti
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