Software Design in Python

  1. Introduction
  2. A Testing Framework
  3. An Interpreter
  4. Versioned File Backups
  5. Mock Objects
  6. A File Cache
  7. A Dataframe
  8. Object Persistence
  9. Binary Data
  10. A Build Manager
  11. A Static Site Generator
  12. Page Layout
  13. An Editor
  14. A Web Server
  15. A Package Manager
  16. Matching Patterns
  17. Parsing Text
  18. A Style Checker
  19. A Virtual Machine
  20. A Debugger
  21. Conclusion
  1. Bibliography
  2. Syllabus
  3. Slides
  4. Teaching Notes
  5. License
  6. Code of Conduct
  7. Contributing
  8. Glossary
  9. Credits
  10. Index

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Software Design in Python

a tool-based introduction

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The best way to learn design is to study examples, and some of the best examples of software design come from the tools programmers use in their own work. These lessons build small versions of file backup systems, testing frameworks, and regular expression matchers both to demystify them and to give some insights into how experienced programmers think.

We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

— Marshall McLuhan