3 Designing functions
This chapter covers
- Functions in Python and their role in designing software
- The standard workflow when interacting with Copilot
- Examples of writing good functions using Copilot
- Reasonable tasks for Copilot to solve
One of the hardest challenges for programming novices is to know what a reasonable task is to give to Copilot so that it finds a good solution. If you give Copilot too big of a task, it will often fail in spectacular ways that can be extremely difficult to fix. What, then, is a reasonable task?
This question is important for our use of Copilot but goes far beyond it. Human programmers struggle with complexity too. If experienced software engineers try to write code to solve a problem that’s too complex ...
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