Practice Plan

[acbart]

Seems like you're in pretty good shape with Python. Looks like we can spend a bit of time on Decorators and unittest module; Regular Expressions are important but we'll probably have some dedicated lessons on them in the future.

For unit testing, I think it'd be a good idea to go do some generic practice problems of your choice, and then write a bunch of unittests for them using the unittest library. Good chance to practice more general Python skills, while still working with the unittest module.

Decorators won't show up much this semester, but it doesn't seem like you have much else you could poke at learning. So here's a guide about decorators: https://realpython.com/primer-on-python-decorators/

I won't send you down the rabbit hole of practicing decorators too deep, but there's a promising practice problem here: https://www.learnpython.org/en/Decorators

How about also these:

• Write a decorator that counts the number of times a function is called
• Write a decorator that counts how long a function took to execute
• Write a decorator that caches any arguments' result and will reuse them (aka memoization).

[amanikiruga]

Thanks Dr. Bart!