Yeah these are both good suggestions. It's fun to throw maybe one or two examples of unittest into the mix, maybe already written (so-called scaffolding).
But unless it's a course about programming / development and nothing more, flogging unittest (aka PyUnit) might seem too much of a detour. In the OST course, there's some doctest towards the end of Python 1, with unittest the main opening topic of Python 2 (which also includes using MySQL as a back end and the Tk GUI was a front end). In a more purely math-oriented course, I still think of Sqlite as a great place to stash polyhedrons in relational tables. VPython is still my favorite library for geometry topics, though I'm still a big fan of POV-Ray after all these years. http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/pymath.html Kirby On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Vern Ceder <vce...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think for most high-school level work, use of the "assert" statement > would > > be the first thing to teach. > > Doctests can also be good way to introduce the idea of testing. It's > maybe a bit easier for beginners to grasp and a very natural Python > technique. > > Vern > > > It can be used in an "if __name__ == '__main__': " construct in a module > to > > make a good quick test. > > > > see https://launchpad.net/romanclass as an example. > > > > Simple modules do not need anything as complex as unittest. It would be a > > good advanced subject, though. > > -- > > Vernon Cole > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Edu-sig mailing list > > Edu-sig@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > > > > > > > -- > Vern Ceder > vce...@gmail.com, vce...@dogsinmotion.com > The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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