Still to Cover

• How do you solve a problem?

  • How do you figure out what is available?
  • How do you determine if something is working?
  • How do you figure out why it isn’t working?
  • Where is the documentation?
  • Where do you ask questions (and how)?
  • What are the common patterns you’ll see time and again?

• paths and processing large numbers of files

  • path-name composition (os.path.join, etc)
  • for (path, directories, files) in os.walk

• modules

  • sys, os, subprocess (often required for any real work)
  • glob, shutil (getting things done at the OS level)
  • requests (web client operations)

• testing/verification?

  • asserting your assumptions (prelude to TDD)
  • asserting pre/post conditions
  • throwing errors vs silent corrections
  • handling corner cases