The Well-Grounded Python Developer Version 8

The Well-Grounded Python Developer MEAP V08
Copyright
Welcome
Brief contents
Chapter 1: Becoming a Pythonista
	1.1 Who is the intended audience?
	1.2 Being a developer
		1.2.1 Solving Problems
		1.2.2 Process
		1.2.3 Your Customers
		1.2.4 Commitment to Learning
	1.3 Reaching goals
		1.3.1 Thinking like a developer
		1.3.2 Building Applications
	1.4 Using Python
		1.4.1 Whitespace, The Final Frontier
		1.4.2 Variables
		1.4.3 Programming Paradigms
		1.4.4 Creating Maintainable Code
		1.4.5 The Language Community
		1.4.6 The Developer Tooling
		1.4.7 Performance
		Optimize your most expensive resource
	1.5 Python Version to Use
	1.6 Summary
Chapter 2: Your Development Environment
	2.1 Installing Python
		2.1.1 Windows
		2.1.2 Mac
		2.1.3 Linux
	2.2 Python Virtual Environment
		2.2.1 Windows
		2.2.2 Mac and Linux
	2.3 Setting up Visual Studio Code
		2.3.1 Installing Visual Studio Code
		2.3.2 Installing Python Extension
		2.3.3 Other Useful Extensions
		Python Docstring Generator
		Code Runner
		DotENV
		Better Jinja
		AREPL for python
		2.3.4 Starting From the Command Line
		2.3.5 Starting a Project
	2.4 Some Advice
	2.5 Summary
Chapter 3: That’s a Good Name
	3.1 Names
		3.1.1 Naming Things
		3.1.2 Naming Experiment
		Experiment
		Possible Solutions
	3.2 Namespaces
	3.3  Python Namespaces
		3.3.1 Builtins Level
		3.3.2 Module Level
		3.3.3 Function Level
		3.3.4 Namespace Scope
		3.3.5 Namespace Experiment
		Experiment
		Possible Solution
	3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Where Developers and Computers Meet
	4.1 Starting a Conversations
		4.1.1 A Contract Between Pieces Of Code
		4.1.2 What's Passed as Input
		4.1.3 What's Expected as Output
		Return Value
		Actions On The System
		Exceptions
	4.2 Function API
		4.2.1 Naming
		4.2.2 Arguments
		Positional Arguments
		Keyword Arguments
		Argument List
		Keyword Argument Dictionary
		Arguments In General
		4.2.3 Return Value
		4.2.4 Single Responsibility
		4.2.5 Function Length
		4.2.6 Idempotentence
		4.2.7 Side Effects
	4.3 Documentation
	4.4 Summary
Chapter 5: The Object of Conversation
	5.1 Object-Oriented Programming
		5.1.1 Class Definition
		5.1.2 Drawing With Class
		Properties
		Decorators
		5.1.3 Inheritance
		Multiple Shapes
		Note
		5.1.4 Polymorphism
		Note
		5.1.5 Composition
	5.2 Summary
Chapter 6: Exceptional Events
	6.1 Exceptions
	6.2 Handling Exceptions
		6.2.1 Handle An Exception If the Code Can Do Something About It
		6.2.2 Allow Exceptions to Flow Upward In Your Programs
		6.2.3 Informing the User
		6.2.4 Never Silence an Exception
		Example 1 Improved
	6.3 Raising An Exception
	6.4 Creating Your Own Exceptions
	6.5 Summary
Chapter 7: Sharing With the World
	7.1 Sharing Your Work
		7.1.1 Web Application Advantages
		7.1.2 Web Application Challenges
	7.2 Servers
		7.2.1 Request / Response Model
	7.3 Web Servers
		HTTP Requests
	7.4 Flask
		7.4.1 Why Flask
		7.4.2 Your First Web Server
		Connecting Routes
		Serving Forever
		Undefined Routes
		7.4.3 Serving Content
		Dynamic Content
		Using A Template Language
		7.4.4 More Jinja2 Features
		Template Inheritance
		Parent Template
		Child Template
		Presentation
		Interactivity
	7.5 Running the Web Server
		7.5.1 Gunicorn
		7.5.2 Commercial Hosting
	7.6 Summary
Chapter 8: Doing it With Style
	8.1 Application Styling
		8.1.1 Creating Appealing Styles
		8.1.2 Styling Consistency
		8.1.3 Normalizing Styles
		8.1.4 Responsive Design
	8.2 Integrating Bootstrap
		8.2.1 Bootstrap Version
		8.2.2 Previous Example Now With Bootstrap!
		Base.html
		Base.css
		Index.html
	8.3 Helping MyBlog Grow
		8.3.1 The Flask app Instance
		Resolving The app Instance Problem
		MyBlog Restructuring
		Application Factory
	8.4 Namespaces
		8.4.1 Flask Blueprints
		8.4.2 Add Blueprints To MyBlog
		The Content
		The Intro Package
		Updated MyBlog Directory
		App Package Changes
		8.4.3 Create the About Page
		8.4.4 Refactored App Instance
	8.5 Navigation
		8.5.1 Creating Navigation Information
		8.5.2 Displaying the Navigation Information
		8.5.3 MyBlog's Current Look
	8.6 Application Configuration
		8.6.1 Configuration Files
		8.6.2 Private Information
	8.7 Flask Debug Toolbar
		8.7.1 FlaskDynaConf
		Configuring MyBlog
	8.8 Logging Information
		8.8.1 Configuration
	8.9 Adding a favicon
	8.10 Summary
Chapter 9: Do I Know You?
	9.1 The HTTP Protocol is Stateless
		9.1.1 Sessions
		Flask Sessions
	9.2 Remembering Someone
		9.2.1 Authentication
		LoginManager
		Auth Blueprint
		User And Role Models
		9.2.2 Logging In
		Flask-WTF
		Login Form
		Jinja Macros
	9.3 News Flash
		9.3.1 Improving the Login Form
	9.4 Making New Friends
		Auth Blueprint
		9.4.1 New User Form
		9.4.2 Oh Yeah, Logging Out
		9.4.3 Navigation
	9.5 Confirming New Friends
		9.5.1 Sending Email
		Emailer
		Confirmation Email
		User Confirmation Token
		Confirm User Handler
		User Confirm Token
	9.6 Resetting Passwords
	9.7 Profiles
	9.8 Security
		9.8.1 Protecting Routes
		9.8.2 Authorizing Routes
		9.8.3 Protecting Forms
	9.9 Summary
Chapter 10: Persistence Means Never Having to say Goodbye
	10.1 The  Other Half
		10.1.1 Maintaining Information Over Time
	10.2 Accessing Data
	10.3 Database Systems
		10.3.1 Tables
		10.3.2 Relationships
		UUID Primary Keys
		One To Many
		Many To Many
		10.3.3 Transaction Database
		10.3.4 Structured Query Language: SQL
		Getting Data
		Using Relationships
	10.4 SQLite As the Database
	10.5 SQLAlchemy
		10.5.1 Benefits
	10.6 Modeling The Database
		10.6.1 Defining the Classes
		The Database Connection
		Modeling The Tables
	10.7 Creating and Using the Database
		10.7.1 Adding Data
		10.7.2 Using the Data
	10.8 Summary
Chapter 11: I’ve Got Something to Say
	11.1 MyBlog Posts
		11.1.1 Modeling the Database
		SQLAlchemy Post Class
	11.2 Change of Direction
	11.3 Content Blueprint
	11.4 Displaying and Creating Posts
		11.4.1 Display Handler
		11.4.2 Display Template
	11.5 Creating Posts
		11.5.1 Creation Handler
		11.5.2 Creation Form
		11.5.3 Creation Template
	11.6 Displaying and Editing a Post
		11.6.1 Display Handler
		11.6.2 Display Template
		11.6.3 Update Handler
		11.6.4 Update Form
		11.6.5 Update Template
	11.7 Displaying and Creating Comments
		11.7.1 Content to Comment Hierarchy
		11.7.2 Modifying the Post Class
		11.7.3 Display Handler
		11.7.4 Display Template
	11.8 Creating Comments
		11.8.1 Creation Template
		11.8.2 Creation Form
		11.8.3 Creation Handler
	11.9 Notifying Users
	11.10 Handling Site Errors
		Cross-Site Scripting
	11.11 Summary
Chapter 12: Are We There Yet?
	12.1 Testing
		12.1.1 Unit Testing
		12.1.2 Functional Testing
		12.1.3 End To End Testing
		12.1.4 Integration Testing
		12.1.5 Load Testing
		12.1.6 Performance Testing
		12.1.7 Regression Testing
		12.1.8 Accessibility Testing
		12.1.9 Acceptance Testing
	12.2 Debugging
		12.2.1 Reproducing Bugs
		12.2.2 Breakpoints
		12.2.3 Logging
		12.2.4 Bad Results
		12.2.5 Process of Elimination
		12.2.6 Talk About the Problem
	12.3 Source Control
	12.4 Optimization
	12.5 OS Environments
	12.6 Cloud Computing
	12.7 Containers
	12.8 Databases
	12.9 Languages
	12.10 Networking
	12.11 Collaboration
	12.12 Summary