Exercise 41. Project devpkg

You are now ready to tackle a new project called devpkg. In this project you’re going to recreate a piece of software that I wrote specifically for this book called devpkg. You’ll then extend it in a few key ways and improve the code, most importantly by writing some unit tests for it.

This exercise has a companion video to it, and also a project on GitHub (https://github.com) that you can reference if you get stuck. You should attempt to do this exercise using the description below, since that’s how you’ll need to learn to code from books in the future. Most computer science textbooks don’t include videos for their exercises, so this project is more about trying to figure it out from this description.

If you get stuck, ...

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