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At work we have to add the Jira issue number to each pull request, branch and commit. This is to help Management with planning.

Python is a wonderful language for beginners but I remember when starting out how Pip, the defacto package manager for Python (at least at the time) didn’t seem as fully featured as others such as npm.

Adding code snippets in your IDE are a great way of saving key strokes on code that you often use.

I always try to work following Test Driven Development. I recently used Pytest to write some unit tests and discovered a couple of neat tricks from a work colleague.

At work recently I had to add some getters and setters to enable user’s responses to a question being persisted to the database.

Photo by Sai Kiran Anagani on Unsplash Earlier this year I completed the 100 days of code challenge. A few Twitterers suggested I write a summary of my 100 day coding challenge experience.

As I wrote recently, after jumping between Javascript, GoLang and Python, I’ve decided to heed some good advice and focus on one language for awhile.

I’ve joined the #100DaysOfCode Challenge. Over Christmas I decided to focus in Q1 2017 on completing Udacity’s Full-Stack Nanodegree. As part of this, a complementary objective is I want to really get to grips with Python.

Python 2 versus 3 # To summarise the Python wiki: “Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language.