As part of our weekly hours worth of group practice we have been working on the Gilded Rose Kata. We worked with this kata for 5-6 weeks with different pairs. We found this a very interesting kata with a number…
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Lessons learnt from facilitating dojos
Some lessons from facilitating coding dojos with both large ( >8 ) and smaller groups of developers. With the smaller group we aim to have a coding dojo every week using cyber-dojo repeating the same kata (bowling game). – the aims…
Know your IDE via Katas
More on practicing programming, I think this is a key part of a professional toolkit hence the focus. I have blogged about removing editor features to change the way you approach code, now in a contrarian move lets examine learning…
Turning off intellisense
Cyber-Dojo (http://www.cyber-dojo.com/) is a web based tool supporting many languages for practising TDD. Its a really cool tool for jumping in and practising katas with minimal fuss – I have blogged about it before. One of the ‘features’ that you…
Back to beginner
Back to beginner Make that Advanced Beginner. (See Drefuss model of learning.) More on Accu 2012 conference. Lots of very useful sessions including one by Nico Josuttis ‘Plenty people programming with the C++ Standard Library’. Nico presented a few small…
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