Notes for Session 02¶
A collection of notes to go over in class, to keep things organized.
Lightning Talks¶
Up today:
Eowyn C Baughman
Po-Sung Chao
Scott B Peterson
Are you ready? We’ll do them in the middle of the session.
Class Outline¶
Let’s take a look at the class outline:
git / gitHub¶
In general, most of you seem to have got the basics down:
- creating a new file
- adding it to git
- pushing it to your fork of the class repo
- making a “pull request” on gitHub.
Any conceptual questions?
Let’s go in and clean up Brian’s fork…
Exceptions¶
Most of you seemed to do fine making the few key exceptions – any questions?
Note:
We were not expecting you to catch the exceptions – we’re really starting at the bottom here, just making sure you get used to seeing Exceptions, and what they mean.
We’ll get into Exception handling later.
eval / exec¶
One of you used eval to demonstrate a syntax error:
Which is a nifty way to get a Syntax Error without crashing the interpreter.
But we were actually expecting you to crash the interpreter! That’s kinda what syntax errors are about.
General Advice: don’t use eval or exec
Why not?
- dangerous!
- unnecessary – metaprograming! – we’ll get to that second quarter.
Lightning Talks¶
Let’s take a break and do some lightning talks…
Eowyn C Baughman
Po-Sung Chao
Scott B Peterson