Using and Mastering Cookiecutter Transcripts
Chapter: Getting started using Cookiecutter
Lecture: 4 examples in the pantry
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So let's look at the examples.
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Here the first one I want to talk about is Pyramid,
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so Pyramid is web framework in Python, and it will create a variety of starter,
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what are called scaffolds, basically all the starter code
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along with associated CSS, JavaScript, image files,
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and everything that you need to run this project.
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The way that you create these scaffolds has always been to run
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a built-in program when you install Pyramid called pcreate,
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so a little bit like the manage.py in Django.
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Now, in the most recent version of Pyramid 1.8.1 maybe 1.8.0, anyway,
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very recently, they just switched to deprecate their own built in scaffold generator
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and the recommended way to create new Pyramid projects going forward
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is to actually use Cookiecutter, so one of them is pyramid-cookiecutter-starter
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and that is basically the most plain and simple Pyramid web app,
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they have other ones based on SQLAlchemy and things like that.
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So this started project is in that pantry full of Cookiecutters, what's next?
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Reproducible science, so check this out, look how cool this is,
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so there is a Cookiecutter calledcookiecutter-reproducible-science,
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and the idea is to have a very well known agreed upon structure,
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for how you submit reports so if you are going to do some kind of research
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that has computation behind it, then you will want to create one of these
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and use this structure so that other people can go in and find your code and run it,
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so here you can see they have things like the data that comes in,
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the internal, the process, the raw data, the external data, the docs,
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the notebooks, the reports, reports are like your papers, things like that,
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as well as the source code that you might have used to generate these papers,
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so how cool is that, if you're a scientist or some kind of academic
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this is a really cool thing to get started with.
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Now, how is that for a blast from the past, Atari 2600,
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anybody want to play some Pitfall- I remember playing this when I was a kid,
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I loved this game, and in fact, I am sure there are still Atari 2600s out there,
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but more importantly, there is probably emulators that you can get and run,
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so you can go and get cookiecutter-atari2600 and that will give you
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the assembler code that then you compile and can run on your Atari emulator,
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so if you are feeling nostalgic, you want to ride an old school computer game
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the hard way, with assembly code, here, give it a shot.
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Finally, let's look at the meta template, so the Cookiecutter as Cookiecutter,
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here is a really nice Cookiecutter called cookiecutter-template
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and we're going to come back and look at this a number of times over,
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the idea is if I want to create a Cookiecutter project myself,
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I want to create a Cookiecutter template myself,
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I can use Cookiecutter on this thing
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and it will generate the exact project structure
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recommended for creating a Cookiecutter template,
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so there is a lot of cool things going on here we're going to study it
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when we get into building your own templates, but for now,
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just know if you want to get started with different things like Atari,
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with data science, or even with creating your own Cookiecutter template,
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there is a Cookiecutter template for it.
