On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:29:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:01:49 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > I also (once!) had a student who started every single > > variable/function/filename with his name!! > I recall somebody on the Python tutor mailing list doing that. They did > so because their course instructor made it a requirement and failed > anyone who didn't. > No reason was given, according to the student, but I imagine that the > instructor was trying to teach them "best practice" *cough* for multi- > user projects, so you can identify who first created each function or > variable. It is interesting (and insidious) how technology shapes our thinking patterns. Before git, such tracking could be a headache. Things like git blame give an automated list 'blaming' each line on its perpetrator. Likewise when teaching (with) C it was immoral behaviour to not match malloc and free, file-open and close. Today the first is impossible and the second is unnecessary and wasteful -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
