Code Kata Night - Almost December 2010

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Comment by D. André Dhondt on December 2, 2010 at 5:55am

Lots of fun that night--here are some photos: one, two

Comment by Sebastian Hermida on December 1, 2010 at 7:05am

Hey! There is nothing crazy about rolling out our own testing framework or trying hard on not using getters and setters as a calisthenics kata :)

Could we at least consider other languages? The last kata that we did at work was a simple exercise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizz_buzz) but you picked a language out of a hat. We had Java, Scala, Python, Clojure and Groovy as languages. Even if you did not finish, you learned a little bit of that language for that kata.

It was fun! And OK, maybe a little crazy :)

Comment by Audrey R. Troutt on November 30, 2010 at 9:51pm

For next time: We discussed doing a "Back to basics" code kata night where we don't do anything crazy like roll your own or object calisthenics. Instead we will pull simple ideas out of a hat and do that with pairing and TDD

Comment by Audrey R. Troutt on November 30, 2010 at 5:31pm

More info about the proposed exercise if you are wondering: We are going to be testing the bowling game. We want the tests to be as expressive as possible so that a non-programmer could read and write them, but we are going to pretend that we don't have junit or rspec to build them on.