Slides of the course: Morning, Part I, Morning, Part II, Afternoon, Object Oriented Design

Exercises: Part I, Part II_

Solution to the exercises:

• Part I:
  • Solution to Exercise 3 (Bug hunt)
  • Solution to Exercise 4 (Sudoku), also available in the SVN repository under day1/exercises_solutions/sudoku

• Part II
  • Solution to afternoon exercise (city graph)

Cheat sheets that summarize the agile development work cycles, and the main features and syntax of Python tools

Two comprehensive software carpentry courses:

University of Alberta

Tiziano's course at the Bernstein center in Berlin

PEP8, the official Python style guide

Refactoring home page, maintained by the author of the main refactoring book, //Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code//, Martin Fowler

pdb, the standard python debugger

winpdb, a graphical interface for pdb. It's platform-independent despite its name.

DDD (DataDisplayDebugger), graphical general-purpose debugger.

Python IDEs often have a built-in debugger.

cProfile, the batteries included Python profiler

timeit, built-in Python module to measure the execution time of small code parts

RunSnakeRun, a wxPython-based visualization of profiling results – very intuitive!

unittest, the standard Python test framework

py.test, an alternative framework that simplifies writing tests and allows for extension and customization of test experience

nose, another popular alternative

SVN book; particularly important is the basic work cycle

A useful and complete one-page cheat sheet for SVN

subclipse, SVN plug-in for Eclipse

TortoiseSVN, SVN integration for the Windows Explorer

Mercurial

git

bazaar

Here is is state pattern example that I talked about: State Pattern Example

Here are a few interesting links about advanced Python OO stuff:

• Python Types and Objects
• Python Attributes and Methods
• Method Resolution Order
• Decorators
• Descriptors
• Things to know about super

To learn more about software design and design patterns you can read some old-school books:

• Head First Design Patterns
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Code Complete

And for fun you can also read blogs, like:

• Joel on Software
• Coding Horror