February 2024
Beginner
352 pages
8h 16m
English
book
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Deceptively Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Data Science, 5th Edition
by Zed A. Shaw
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Exercise 40
Advanced Developer Tools
This exercise is all about avoiding “footguns.” A “footgun” is a gun specifically designed to shoot yourself right in the foot. It points straight down all the time and has no safety latch, so every time you try to aim a footgun, you just blast your toe off. Software is full of these footguns because of limitations in the software, bad configuration designs, or other oversights of usability.
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