From: Neil Smith <neil.git@njae.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:25:55 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Added cat commands to slides
X-Git-Url: https://git.njae.me.uk/?p=cipher-training.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=20aff345391c6ae2d00a55c586fda31f6f4315d5

Added cat commands to slides
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diff --git a/slides/caesar-encipher.html b/slides/caesar-encipher.html
index 4afd78d..279c2bd 100644
--- a/slides/caesar-encipher.html
+++ b/slides/caesar-encipher.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Before doing anything, create a new branch in Git
 
 Experiment in IPython (ephemeral, for us)
 
-Once you've got something working, copy the code into a `.py` file (permanent and reusable)
+Once you've got something working, export the code into a `.py` file (permanent and reusable)
 
 ```python
 from imp import reload
@@ -224,6 +224,15 @@ ciphertext = [caesar_encipher_letter(p, key) for p in plaintext]
 ''.join()
 ```
 
+You'll be doing this a lot, so define a couple of utility functions:
+
+```python
+cat = ''.join
+wcat = ' '.join
+```
+
+`cat` after the Unix command (_concatenate_ files), `wcat` for _word concatenate_.
+
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