Chapter 6: Debugging with Pytest
Noah Gift
The real world mostly works. When you get in a modern car, it seldom breaks down. Most houses in the United States are well built and don’t require daily repair. In school, most tests and quizzes have a passing grade by design. Getting an “F” grade is typically very rare.
Software engineering is quite different. Everything breaks every day. When learning to be a software developer, this is the biggest challenge to overcome. Beginners feel like a one hundred foot wave is crushing them over and over again. One solution to this is adopting a new mindset.
I tell students new to programming to embrace the failure. When you are getting hammered by mistakes and failures, this means you are exactly on the ...
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