6. LLNL Course: Done!

   On Tuesday (June 12), Wednesday, and Thursday I taught the course "Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python" at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. This was intended to be an extension of some of the ideas from the Software Carpentry course.

   The pre-course course advert, the handouts distributed at the course …

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7. Faculty programming contest?

   Does anyone know if there are any faculty programming contests out there?

   It'd be fun, and I can't imagine that the competition would be as tough as the student programming contests probably are ;).

   --titus

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   Posted by jt on 2007-06-22 at 19:56.

   Um... faculty members... programming? You lost …

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8. Unintended consequences of the decorator notation

   Spoke yesterday with Bill Punch, a CS professor at MSU who is using Python for intro CS. He told me his tale of tracking down what an '@' sign meant (it's a decorator, http://docs.python.org/ref/function.html). Needless to say it took him quite a while to google …

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9. What book?

   The O'Reilly bookstore didn't actually let you buy our Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium for the first 24 hours -- some bug on the Web site, apparently...

   (See? That's why you need to buy it!)

   --titus

   p.s. Jason wants to make sure you know that the …

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10. Interested in Web testing?

    Check out our e-book, An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium! And please, let us know what you think...

    --titus

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11. Seen on the agile-testing list

    Recently seen on a list (with a nasty archival system that I don't want to link to):

    "Don't write a test plan. Instead, test."
    
                 -- Bret Pettichord
    

    Need I say more?

    Probably.

    One of the most important tenets of agility (<-- little 'a' ;), in my opinion, is to not overthink. Unless you're …

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12. Array permutation in Python

    Just saw this, in-place permutation (of a Java array, in this case).

    In Python, if you ignore the battery that's included (random.shuffle) you have this:

    import random
    l = range(0, 20) # array to permute
    
    for j in range(1, len(l)):
       k = random.randint(0, j)
       l[j], l …

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