Chapter 1
Project Zero: A Template for Other Projects
This is a book of projects. To make each project a good portfolio piece, we’ll treat each project as an enterprise software product. You can build something that could be posted to a company’s (or organization’s) internal repository.
For this book, we’ll define some standards that will apply to all of these projects. The standards will identify deliverables as a combination of files, modules, applications, notebooks, and documentation files. While each enterprise is unique, the standards described here are consistent with my experience as a consultant with a variety of enterprises.
We want to draw an informal boundary to avoid some of the steps required to post to the PyPI website. Our emphasis is on a product with test cases and enough documentation to explain what it does. We don’t want to go all the way to creating a project in PyPI. This allows us to avoid the complications of a build system...
