Alex@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoA week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next weeklemmy.mlimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
arrow-up132arrow-down1imageA week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next weeklemmy.mlAlex@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months ago“Ohh, I got all these numbers I want to crunch using numpy or pandas and plot it using matplotlib. Hold on, I just need to write unit tests first.”
minus-squareCyborganism@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoWell. Yeah. That’s test-driven development. It’s a very good practice.
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoTDD only works well if the problem is clearly specified before the first line of code has been written, which is rarely the case when I need Python for something.
“Ohh, I got all these numbers I want to crunch using numpy or pandas and plot it using matplotlib. Hold on, I just need to write unit tests first.”
Well. Yeah. That’s test-driven development. It’s a very good practice.
TDD only works well if the problem is clearly specified before the first line of code has been written, which is rarely the case when I need Python for something.