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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Managing conda Environments

Python has a useful feature called “environments,” where you can install ...

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