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Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wrote the seminal software development book, The Pragmatic Programmer. Together they founded The Pragmatic Programmers and are well known as founders of the agile movement and authors of the Agile Manifesto. They founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing business in 2003.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf published it's most important book, in my opinion, in 2017 with the first pytest book available from any publisher...

With conventional TDD, you write a failing test, get it to pass, then refactor.
Then run the tests again to make sure your refactoring didn't break anything.
But what if it did break something?
Kent Beck has been recommending to commit your code to revision control after every green test run.
Oddmund Strømme suggested a symmetrical idea to go ahead and revert the code when a test fails.
Kent writes that he hated the idea, but had to try it...

In today's episode we talk with Kelly Paredes & Sean Tibor.
They teach Python in a middle school in Florida, and talk about this experience on the podcast "Teaching Python".

I love that they include physical computing right from the start, and everything else they are doing.

It's a fun interview.

Special Guests: Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor...

I was recently interviewed on a podcast called "IT Career Energizer Podcast".
Phil Burgess is the host of the podcast, and it was a lot of fun.

I think it turned out well, and I wanted to share it with you here, with Phil's permission, of course.

Special Guest: Phil Burgess.

Links:

• IT Career Energizer Podcast

Is it ok to have more than one assert statement in a test?
I've seen articles that say no, you should never have more than one assert.
I've also seen some test code made almost unreadable due to trying to avoid more than one assert per test.

Where did this recommendation even come from? What are the reasons?
What are the downsides to both perspectives?

That's what we're going to talk about today...

I want you to get the most out of being a software developer, or test engineer, or whatever you do that makes this podcast relevant to your life.

By "get the most" I mean:

• the most fun
• the most value
• more career options
• probably more responsibility
• maybe even more money, that'd be cool

I want you to start (or continue) studying and practicing your skills...

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
-- Confucius

Matt Harrison is an author and instructor of Python and Data Science. This episode focuses on his training company, MetaSnake, and corporate training.

Matt's written several books on Python, mostly self published. So of course we talk about that...

There are a lot of learning styles and a lot of ways to learn Python. If you started Python through a class at work, or through an online course, or maybe an email series, it's possibly you may have learned from Reuven Lerner.

If your first encounter with pytest was reading an article in Linux Journal recently, that would be the writing of Reuven.

Reuven Lerner teaches Python...

A look back on 3 years of podcasting, and a bit of a look forward to what to expect in 2019...

Julian Sequeira is Co-Founder of PyBit.es (a blog/platform created to teach and learn Python) and a Python Trainer at Talk Python Training.
He's also a survivor of the 100DaysOfCode in Python Challenge.

We talk about the 100 days challenge, about learning Python, and about how cool it is to learn within a community.

Special Guest: Julian Sequeira...