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Re: Classic OOP in Python

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Date 2015-06-18 10:07 +1000
Subject Re: Classic OOP in Python
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Another interesting ism I have read about is the idea that the starting
> point of any software project should be the user manual. The developers
> should then go and build the product that fits the manual.

I've seldom met a *user* manual that's truly the right way to start
building, but there have been times when I've built *API*
documentation prior to the code. That can work fairly well. I'll also
often start a project with a copious set of notes that aren't quite
user-facing, aren't quite programmer-friendly, but are somewhere in
between. Here's a new project I'm starting now:

https://github.com/Rosuav/ThirdSquare

Prior to actually creating that repo, I'd done some thrash testing of
the basic concepts (which is how I know that the basic idea will work
- my thrash test achieved 100tps, massively exceeding the 40tps that I
need, ergo it's worth proceeding to code), but the project itself
started with the README, then the .sql files giving a basic run-down
of the tables required. Now, and only now, I'm starting to look at
actual code. Is that starting with the user manual? Not quite, but I
think it captures the same concept that that's trying to capture.

ChrisA

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Classic OOP in Python "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 12:21 -0700
  Re: Classic OOP in Python Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 14:38 -0500
  Re: Classic OOP in Python Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-06-17 12:44 -0700
    Re: Classic OOP in Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-17 23:39 +0300
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-17 22:07 +0100
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-06-17 14:14 -0700
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-18 00:33 +0200
          Re: Classic OOP in Python Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-06-17 15:55 -0700
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-18 11:50 +0100
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-19 01:01 +0200
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-20 23:52 +0100
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-21 10:26 +0200
      Re: Classic OOP in Python sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-06-17 14:33 -0700
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-17 22:49 +0100
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-18 00:22 +0200
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Marco Buttu <marco.buttu@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 11:00 +0200
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-18 00:09 +0200
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-17 23:27 +0100
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-18 08:58 +1000
        Re: Classic OOP in Python Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 08:10 -0700
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-06-17 19:46 -0400
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 10:07 +1000
      Re: Classic OOP in Python "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 04:24 -0700
    Re: Classic OOP in Python "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 04:21 -0700
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-06-18 04:54 -0700
    Re: Classic OOP in Python "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 04:22 -0700
  Re: Classic OOP in Python sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-06-17 14:16 -0700
    Re: Classic OOP in Python Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 13:03 +0200
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-18 14:25 +0300
      Re: Classic OOP in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 21:43 +1000

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