Jane Austen on PEP8...

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Argues that English training yields concrete coding wins: writing plot-driven functional tests (user stories mapped to exposition, climax, resolution) produces clear tests that guide code and pass when implemented; comparing PEP8 vs Strunk and White shows formatting and whitespace are usability decisions, not mere taste; concrete tools referenced include Django, Two Scoops of Django, TEI XML, Django Girls and Harry Percival’s Test Driven Development in Python; leaves breadcrumbs via comments and docstrings so future maintainers can understand why code behaves as it does.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:34Laceys background
3. 2:06TeI
4. 5:05Guess the Source
5. 6:34Plot Driven Development
6. 10:02Error Messages
7. 11:09Functional Tests
8. 11:26Outline
9. 11:36Whitespace
10. 11:47Function Definition
11. 12:38Readability
12. 13:19Outlander
13. 14:48Journalism
14. 15:05Edicts
15. 15:32Complexity
16. 16:49Questions
17. 17:09literate programming
18. 19:34complexity vs complexity

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