Status Updates From Python 3 Object Oriented Pr...

let testing journey begins

starting chapter 5 from this enjoyable book

sigh

Now working on class inheritance.

Skimmed most of the design patterns. A lot of it went over my head. I'll have to revisit as I get better at Python. The testing chapter was good because I'd been using unittest, but I think I'd like pytest better. Now learning about concurrency.

I understood the first half of the iterator chapter then it started to go ovr my head.

I have a feeling I'm going to just be skimming the next two chapters, Design Patterns 1 and 2. Especially since they're so complex a topic that Pakt has a book that is solely about mastering python design patterns.

Wow....strings were a surprisingly deep topic. Learned a few more things I intend to apply to my Extra Life Donation code.

Next up is is ch9 Iterators - this is the best part of Python code in making loops and other things more readable, but it's also so different from the coding I did the rest of my life that I always forget the subtlties. Should learn a lot.

Learned a lot in data structures, including some more Pythonic ways of doing things than I'd been doing in my code.

Basely understood anything Object-Oriented shortcuts, but did learn a safer way to do files operations.

Next up, ch8 - Strings and Serialization

A chapter on exception handling!

OOP syntax - picked up a few new tricks and best practices.

Now learning about Pythonic inheritance. Duck typing makes this a little more complicated to wrap my brain around, but is pretty neat. Also was reminded that I can use inheritance to extend lists, dicts, etc for more elegant code.

Refreshing myself on the terms and paradigms of OOP. I mostly remembered them, but some had grown quite fuzzy since my Java days.

So far so good. I wouldn’t recommend to read ePub version of this book. Diagrams look not great.

Design patterns are incredibly useful. I have been implementing some of the without knowing I was doing it. I'm so eager to continue learning about them.

Chapter 9 read, and 4 chapters left. However, the next two chapters are design patterns which I am not so familiar. I know they will take some time to master, and I am wondering whether I should continue reading them or start Head First Design Patterns.

Serialization has been covered. Though I had no idea how to use pickle and json before, now I can use them. Again this knowledge has to be put into practice. Very exciting about starting with design patterns tomorrow.

I love high order programming in Python. It is great to be able to pass a function another function, and in general, treat a function as an object is treated.

Though I thought I was going to take almost no notes about this chapter, I was wrong. It is very interesting to know about named tuples. I am definitely using them on my projects.

Chapter 5 completed. I am definitely applying the knowledge, I have acquired in these two previous chapters, in my projects.

Chapter 4 is over. Though I know most of the stuff about exceptions, I liked to see how other people write code since this is a great way to become a better coder.

Now that I know the basics of SQL, it is time to continue learning object oriented programming with Python.

Well, chapter 3 was very deep regarding to Python and OOP. Now, I am going to practice what I have already learned before diving into exception handling.

Chapter 2 was not bad. I have understood well relative and absolute imports, and now it is clearer how to handle access control in Python. It was good to learn the term name mangling, but it is kind of disappointing to know that in the end with a little of effort you can access data that uses mangling.

Finally, I have finished reviewing the object oriented concepts in chapter 1. Though a short chapter, many concepts had to be reviewed further. Now, I am eager to start working with Python code.