APPENDIX H: RESUME PORTFOLIO BUILDING CAPSTONE PROJECTS

HOW TO READ THE MICRO-STEPS Every action in this appendix is its own numbered step, and every step is small enough to finish in a minute or two. After the important steps you will see a line that starts with the words "You should see," which tells you what a correct result looks like. If what you see is different, stop and look at the section called Common Mistakes before moving on, because a small slip left alone grows into a large tangle. Type the code exactly as shown, starting every line at the position shown, because Python, the programming language used here, treats the number of spaces at the start of a line as part of the meaning. Each project's code was run with the mock model and its tests passed before this appendix was written, so if a test fails for you, the cause is almost always a typing slip, a missing file, or a wrong folder. The commands in this appendix use the word python; on some computers the right word is python3, and you should use whichever one prints a version number when you type it followed by --version. Where a step says "open a terminal," that means the text window in which you type commands, often called the command line. Appendix G explains the basic lab setup, and this appendix assumes you can create folders and files, open a terminal inside a folder, and run a Python file.