----- Mensaje original ----- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > So for the past 3 days I been on a python course and I thought it a > good opportunity to explain why and what I got from it. > > My past: > Unlike many at Canonical I'm not from a technical software, coding > or office back ground. I drove lorries (rigid trucks the size of > semis) for a living. I had a shoulder injury that meant that I was > unable to do that any more, while I was off I worked at testing the > iso images for the entire Ubuntu family. Every QA manager got me a > contract for the end of a release and worked hard to get me a full > time position with Canonical. > > The Present: > Heno got in touch to let me know there was a QA position I'd be ideal > for within ISD at the time , now Commercial Applications (online > services) and I got it, woohoo. Since then I've worked hard breaking > nearly every piece of software I touch (only to make it better > honest). However it is getting more and more imperative that there > are good automated functional tests in place for regression, not > coming from a programming background I read what I could on python and > I've fudged together some basic scripts that work as much as they need > to, but was coming to the end of my knowledge very quickly. > > The Course: > I wanted to get on a course that would not get me programming as such > but understanding what python was and did with code. I wanted to > understand how to write better code with a greater ease. To that end > I booked a course with Thyme Software (John Pinners Company). The > Training was refactored slightly to help me with the goals above. >
hi, could you drop a link or contact, i might be interested but tried "ducking it" and could not find the company but many cooking websites. > Day 1: Normally there is a brief intro with a description of the > differences with the language you are currently coding in. However > for me John started with a whole heap of small examples that taught me > what python did with items in memory and how objects could be link to > that byte code in memory, he showed me where I could get good examples > of code that showed how commands worked rather than the more technical > stuff that you see in man pages, python help, and pythons online docs > (1). Because day one was basically made up of understanding how > python worked it meant that day 2 and 3 then made a whole lot of sense > all of a sudden. > > Day 2: Covered all the basics tuples, dicts, lists, strings, numbers > and then went onto functions and basic modules info as I had an idea > about them already. Now the stuff I spent an entire day on in Day 1 > suddenly made a whole heap of sense, it meant I could look at the > basic example code and mostly predict the behaviour correctly by just > looking at the code. This then lead onto running the Gotcha code > examples to give me a better understanding of that, and then a video > on unicode!!! (that if you haven't seen it GO DO IT NOW! (2)) > > Day 3: Got mind bending with OO concepts, classes, file operations, > functional programming, generators and finally unittests and exception > handling. However a lot of it was easier to follow as I could at > least understand roughly what python was likely to do with it. This > lead onto writing a bunch of small functions to grab data from a basic > module and a basic text file and interact with it to give different > results. Finally John covered a small amount on Gui application > creation for QT in python with a few basic peices of example code. > > All in all it was a really good course that has helped me a great > deal. John has done a free one day extension for me to cover some > more complex stuff that we ran out of time for, due to spending so > much time get me to understand what python does with code. I heartily > recommend this course to anyone that needs to learn python > > (1) http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/ shows basic code examples over > a technical description on how it works > (2) > http://pyvideo.org/video/948/pragmatic-unicode-or-how-do-i-stop-the-pain > > - -- > You make it, I'll break it! > > I love my job :) > http://www.ubuntu.com > http://www.canonical.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk/+qkQACgkQT5xqyT+h3Oid8wCfdr7KvExZBGb1TE+9HRU41fng > 3PEAoL7EhsFO5tg1h/GnBpgkJNE9BWLx > =+583 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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