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Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson

By : Cody Jackson
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Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson

By: Cody Jackson

Overview of this book

Python is a cross-platform language used by organizations such as Google and NASA. It lets you work quickly and efficiently, allowing you to concentrate on your work rather than the language. Based on his personal experiences when learning to program, Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson provides a hands-on introduction to computer programming utilizing one of the most readable programming languages–Python. It aims to educate readers regarding software development as well as help experienced developers become familiar with the Python language, utilizing real-world lessons to help readers understand programming concepts quickly and easily. The book starts with the basics of programming, and describes Python syntax while developing the skills to make complete programs. In the first part of the book, readers will be going through all the concepts with short and easy-to-understand code samples that will prepare them for the comprehensive application built in parts 2 and 3. The second part of the book will explore topics such as application requirements, building the application, testing, and documentation. It is here that you will get a solid understanding of building an end-to-end application in Python. The next part will show you how to complete your applications by converting text-based simulation into an interactive, graphical user interface, using a desktop GUI framework. After reading the book, you will be confident in developing a complete application in Python, from program design to documentation to deployment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

GUI testing

While there is documentation for Kivy testing, it requires the installation of nose (an alternative testing library, similar to pytest) for unit testing and coverage to check how much code was tested. However, the documentation doesn't seem to have been updated within the last year, as it refers to the original nose program, which has been deprecated in favor of nose2.

You can use regular, non-graphical unit tests in your code. But, if you want to test the GUI itself, you have to set up the environment for that. We won't bother with automated testing for this project, though it is advised to do that for large-scale projects. Any new versions of the fuel farm scenario would include automated tests; but, for now, we will manually test it because it is actually pretty easy in this small a project.

First, we just want to ensure that, when everything is closed...