On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 6:52:53 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 25/04/2015 01:51, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > > Based on my experience reading newbie posts on python list and > > Stackoverflow, learning to write real functions, without input and > > print, and repeatable tests, is the most important thing many people are > > not learning from programming books and classes. > > > > Got to start them off somewhere so http://nedbatchelder.com/text/test0.html
Nice! Thanks for that! Found some other gems from Ned which Ive stuffed into my blog -- will put it in the relevant thread However I dont believe that Ned and Terry are talking the same thing -- though closely related. Ned is talking of how to do testing Terry is talking of how to write clean (old-fashioned word 'structured') code and using testing as an allurement. They are not the same because if (say!) you were a genius who wrote bug-free code on first attempt you dont need to test; you still need to write clean code for others to read -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
