... number of tests and depth of their reach promotes fast unit test runs.
There are fewer of them, and they are doing less work.
In Python, we have many tools to assist with writing unit tests. Two of ... Think of the difficulty of main-
taining someone else’s code when they are no longer around. What they could answer in
seconds will take y
ou minutes or hours to fathom out.
Code bases are full of ... the loss of any one programmer.
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... at Microsoft, where he
specializes in the technologies for the next generation of the Web. He
has been amazed at how things have progressed since Foundations of
Atlas (the predecessor of this ... limited in the scope of
what they could do.
At the end of the 1990s, Microsoft unveiled the successor to ActiveX (among others)
in its .NET Framework. This framework would form Microsoft’s strategic ... of the manual scripting, it will
become much clearer.
In this chapter, you were introduced to the overall architecture of ASP.NET AJAX,
given a tour of the various features the architecture offers,...
... results of this example, when compiled and executed, are as follows:
Enter day of the month on which you were born: 23
Enter number of the month you were born: 5
Enter last two digits of the year of ... ix
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Reflector ... terminate, it is often useful to think
of recursion in terms of a base case and the recursive case. The
recursive case is the value for
which the function is defined in terms of itself; for the...
... World',
v_abapers(10) TYPE c VALUE &apos ;of Abapers'.
START -OF- SELECTION.
WRITE: /, v_hello, v_abapers.
What will this produce? A list dialog displaying “Hello World of Abapers”.
Now let’s look at ... between our classes. This will start to give us an
indication of the responsibilities of each class, which is a very important aspect of OO design.
Figure 2-5 illustrates this more fully.
Figure ... we will explore the basic constructs of the Java language. You
shouldn’t skip any of these lessons, since they will lay the foundation for the second part
of the book. Always try what you have...
...
Different methods of decompressive cra-
niectomy in the treatment of TBI
Different methods of decompressive craniecto-
my have been developed for, or applied to, decom-
pression of the brain at risk ... this could maximize brain expansion after
removal of part of the skull. However, opening the
dura with no protection for the underlying brain tis-
s u e m a y increase the risk of several secondary ... were made of hemostastic sponge
wrapped by absorbable thread), and then the superfi-
cial vessels supporting the portion ofbrain run in the
artificial “vascular tunnel” between the brain tissue...
... sort of a framework. In
Python, a natural choice is Setuptools, which provides a solid basis for automated builds.
Chapter 5: A Build for Every Check-In
Automated build systems form the core of ... development (TDD) is the practice of writing tests before writing the code they
test. Imposters (a.k.a. mock objects) provide a powerful unit-testing technique to isolate units
of code. I examine two mock ... Pydev plug-in.
Chapter 3: Revision Control: Subverting Your Code
A revision control system is part of the core infrastructure for any agile development environ-
ment. Subversion is an excellent choice....
... University of Cambridge, becoming an expert in the
application of automated proof to real-world problems, participating in the team that for-
mally verified the correctness of aspects of the Intel ... Joining
Microsoft in 1998, he saw the opportunity to enhance and transform the design of the .NET
Framework by including elements of functional programming, beginning with the addition of
generics ... started writing the book. Some of it
was written in Paris where I was living on the weekends, some of it was written in Brussels
were I was working during the week, and much of it was written while...
... people think of functional programming, they often view its statelessness as a fatal flaw,
without considering its advantages. One could argue that since an imperative program is often
90 percent ... the
pleasures of life in the hope that it will make him virtuous.
John Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology
(
http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html)
To see the advantages of functional ... functional languages offer other features that
borrow from mathematics and are not commonly found in imperative languages. For exam-
ple, functional programming languages often offer
curried functions,...
... subspace of E
n
is in terms of a set of basis vectors. A
subspace that is of particular interest to us is the one for which the columns
of X provide the basis vectors. We may denote the k columns of ... independence in terms of the marginal
density of X
1
and the marginal density of X
2
. The marginal density of X
1
is,
as one would expect, the derivative of the marginal CDF of X
1
,
f(x
1
) ≡ ... way that probabilities of subsets are proportional to their
areas. Thus the probabilities of A and B are the ratios of the areas of the cor-
responding circles to the area of the bounding rectangle,...
...
for More Professional Speaking
and Writing
Tips and tricks gleaned from UGA’s
Foundations of Leadership and
Management Program
Presenting Before a Group
Strive for a quality of naturalness ... presentation an extension of yourself.
Never try to be someone you’re not.
Analyze aspects of your personality that appeal to others.
Practice speaking to a professional group as though ...
That’s all! Now don’t you feel smarter?
Business Skills Quiz
16. Which of the following is not a poor professional use of email?
a. It is okay to reprimand someone by email.
b. You can send...
... material in the
shape of a cuboid is determined by the ratio of the length to the width of the piece of
material (Equation 1.6). Assuming that R
o
is the resistance of a piece of planar material
FIGURE ... circuits can be stated as
1. The rate of change of magnetic flux linked with any portion of the circuit
must be zero for all time.
2. The rate of change of the charge at any node in the circuit ... values of each of
these variables may be positive or negative depending on the actual direction
of current flow or the actual polarity of the voltage.
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terminal...