Thursday

Objectives

• Understand the difference between mutable and immutable types in Python
• Understand why the difference is important
• Learn how to work with exceptions in Python to handle and communicate error conditions
• Learn more advanced semantics for passing arguments to functions
• Understand the basics of using functional programming style in Python
• Learn about multi-version testing with tox
• Create a tox configuration and verify cross-version compatibility for a small project

Readings

Review

Concepts

• Introduction To Python: Part 4
  • Lists and Tuples
  • Mutability
  • Mutable Sequence Methods
  • List Performance
  • Exception Handling
  • Advanced Argument Passing
  • Comprehensions
  • Anonymous functions
  • Functional Programming
• Testing With Tox
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Execution
  • Wrap-Up

Demo

Assignments

• Mail Room Madness: Building (due Friday)
• Read Upgrade your Technical Skills With Deliberate Practice
• Today I learned...