Peter, Thanks for the suggestion! I'll have to play around with doctest myself, I have never used it. BTW the course is open to the public. Anyone in the vicinity of Merrimack, NH, US who wants to learn Python, go to http://www.merrimack.k12.nh.us/ to register! Kent

From: Peter Fröhlich <phf@cs.ucr.edu> Date: 2004/08/19 Thu PM 11:45:46 EDT To: Kent Johnson <kent37@tds.net> CC: <edu-sig@python.org> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] How to introduce test-driven development?

Hi all!

On Aug 19, 2004, at 18:43, Kent Johnson wrote:

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I am going to be teaching introductory Python programming in an adult education program this fall. (Finally! I wanted to do this in the spring but it didn't work out.) I want to introduce the students to unittest and test-first programming but I am not sure when and how to do this.

I'd suggest introducing doctest instead of pyunit. It's simpler, no classes, just like the interpreter, etc. Worked well for me when I introduced it to my students.

BTW, please be sure to let the list know how your course is going. I am planning to introduce some Python in an (essentially) social science class next year. :-)

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