Many students have asked how to download CSV files from the course repository. I should provide more information about how to do it.

Short answer is there are two ways of doing this:

A. Either clone the course repository and locate the CSV file from within the local repo and then copy that local file.

B. Or from GitHub, visit the "raw" contents, and copy and paste them into a new CSV file using your text editor.

To the flask package notes, in the table of example apps, add https://github.com/kyokang1/time-tracker

Avoid using parens on an instance method by tagging its definition with @property.

class BaseballTeam():
  """
  bt = BaseballTeam({"city": "Little Town", "name": "Tots", "league":"little", "players": ["JJ", "Zhang", "Margaret", "Ryan", "Joey"]})
  """

  def __init__(self, params):
    self.city = params["city"]
    self.name = params["name"]
    self.league = params["league"]
    self.players = params["players"]

  @property
  def full_name(self):
    return self.city + " " + self.name

print(team.full_name)

See also: instance and class methods (https://realpython.com/instance-class-and-static-methods-demystified/)

pytest  --disable-pytest-warnings

pytest  -s #> see print statements

pytest test/parser_test.py -k 'test_my_thing' 

Source:

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/capture.html

Also fixtures:

import pytest

# prevents unnecessary or duplicative language model loading
# fixture only loaded when a specific test needs it
# module-level fixture only invoked once for all tests
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def nlp():
    import spacy
    print("LOADING THE LANGUAGE MODEL...")
    return spacy.load("en_core_web_md")

def test_my_thing(nlp):
    doc = nlp(reconstructed_text)
    # etc 

Students would benefit from an example of assembling filepaths that include directories with spaces in their names.

Example command which adds quotes around the directory name:

# Windows Command Prompt:
move C:\Users\Mike\Desktop"My Spacey Dir"\my_file.txt C:\Users\Mike\Desktop

Add to errors.md:

class MyCustomError(Exception):
   pass

raise MyCustomError("My custom message")

h/t:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319615/proper-way-to-declare-custom-exceptions-in-modern-python
• https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/user-defined-exception
• https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/exceptions.html

from itertools import combinations 

vals = ["M", "C", "P", "Z"]
combos = combinations(vals, 2) # choose 2
list(combos) #> [('M', 'C'), ('M', 'P'), ('M', 'Z'), ('C', 'P'), ('C', 'Z'), ('P', 'Z')]

h/t: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/permutation-and-combination-in-python/

There should be a markdown exercise to help students better understand the syntax, and a Readme excercise to help students better understand the role of the README file.

Add this to the command-line computing notes on Windows:

explorer .

h/t: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7865509/670433

Equivalent to open . on Mac.

When I release a new syllabus version, many manual steps are involved and I'd like to automate or otherwise simplify this process, to save me time.

Process:

1. Decide that my google doc syllabus is good to go
2. Download a pdf version of the syllabus
3. Copy the PDF syllabus to overwrite the SYLLABUS.pdf file in this course repo, and upload to GitHub
4. Upload the PDF syllabus to the "Syllabus" page in NYU Classes, then update the "Overview" page to include a link to the new version
5. Post a message to Slack notifying students of the new syllabus (and what changes and why)

Should give example of using a specified version. like sendgrid==5.6.0

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-testing

Students should have notes about the "webbrowser" module and its URL visiting capabilities.

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open("http://www.google.com")

Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html

Need to run conda init bash when prompted to do so, from within Git Bash on Windows, before activating a virtual environment for the first time.