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Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Python

python allows you to make use of some of thes more functional style perties, like immutability. The secret thing that i'm trying to sneak in, and it's maybe not too secret, is testing. I think that especially beginners are taught testing. You knowi would say the first five, ten years of my programming experience, no one ever used test. And then when i started teaching, i didn't have test at first. I was just kind of doing it the way that i had always antaught. Like, we're going to write a programme - nd if it looks like this here, then Thumps did a great jobs. N ok, now we have

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