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Real Programming S01E06: Getting A Little Testy

Uncategorized, Real Programming Series / / 15 minutes of reading
This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E06: Getting A Little Testy! We did good work last time, but we left some testing issues, so let’s fix that up. If you want to follow along in the code, the project is at github. Real programming, episode 6. The show where the slogan well, we ran into a couple of technical glitches. But we seem to have found workarounds for it, and we don’t think we’d slipped schedule really at all. So it’s all going really […]

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Real Programming S01E05: Models Don’t Do Real Work!

Programming, Geekery, Real Programming Series / / 13 minutes of reading
This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E05: Models Don’t Do Real Work! There’s still game stuff going on in the model, so let’s get it out of there. If you want to follow along in the code, the project is at github. Hey! Episode Five, Real Programming. The show where the slogan has 142.1 story points left before it’s delivered. It’s been a while since we last chatted, so let me do a quick review. We’ve broken our code up into three layers. At

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Real Programming S01E04: Into The Frying Domain!

Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, How I Work, Real Programming Series / / 15 minutes of reading
This entry is part 4 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E04: Into the Frying Domain! We have two parts of our walking skeleton, the View and the Model. This time we’ll move a tiny amount of work into the domain classes If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Welcome to episode four of Real Programming, the show where the slogan is still a work in progress. Last time, we had our view and our model and I remarked that that was two

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Real Programming S01E03: Baby Needs New Shoes!

TDD, Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, Technique, How I Work, Real Programming Series / / 15 minutes of reading
This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E03: Baby Needs New Shoes! Watching those itty-bitty numbers for the dice is making me crazy, so let’s get some dice images going today! If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Transcript Hey there. Welcome to episode 3 of Real Programming, the show where we’re still trying to figure out what our slogan is. We’re working on a Yahtzee program. And today, we’re going to push really hard and see if we

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Real Programming S01E02: Look, Ma! A Test!

Kotlin, Technique, How I Work, Real Programming Series, Geekery, TDD, Programming / / 15 minutes of reading
This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Real Programming

Real Programming S01E02: Look, Ma! A Test Last time we did a rapid-fire model/view split, just so we could test. Now we gotta test this bad boy a little! If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Hey, it’s GeePaw and I still have Wally, and Molly’s off camera, and we’re back with Real Programming: the show that still doesn’t have a slogan, but that’s OK. We’ll keep going. Anyway, when last we left you,

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Real Programming S01E01: Getting Started | Video

TDD, Programming, Geekery, Kotlin, Technique, How I Work, Real Programming Series / / 14 minutes of reading
This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Real Programming

(Video: https://vimeo.com/448155181) Real Programming S01E01: Getting Started Hi Folks! In this first episode we lay the groundwork for a simple desktop Yahtzee application. If you want to follow along in the code, the project is https://github.com/geepawhill/yz Transcript Hey, folks. It’s GeePaw sitting out here on my deck, where I do most of my work in the summer months. And today is the first episode of my new series called real programming, the show where we don’t have a cool slogan

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TDD & The Lump Of Coding Fallacy | Video

Programming, TDD / / 7 minutes of reading

Hey, it’s GeePaw, and if you’re just starting to look at TDD, refactoring, the modern technical synthesis, we need to start with a couple of minutes about the Lump Of Coding fallacy. You’re a working geek: you spend your days coding for money to add value to your company. And one day some random schmoe like me comes up to you and says, hey friend you really ought to try TDD, because that value that you’re adding, you could have

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Coaching? Like People | Video

Coaching / / 4 minutes of reading

Hey, there, it’s GeePaw! And you are watching the first ever GeePaw video aimed specifically at coaches. I hope you like it. Do you know what the first absolute prerequisite for being a successful software development coach is? You have to like people. You have to like people. You have to like their style. You have to like their resistance. You have to like when they do the thing you want them to do. You have to like when they

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Optimizing A Program (And Programming) | Video

Geekery, Modern-Synthesis / / 7 minutes of reading

A Simple Optimization Problem Hey, it’s GeePaw! Got a little optimization issue for you. Let’s look at some code. It’s easy stuff, so I’ve just used pseudocode here. Take a look. The program starts by entering a loop that runs 50 times. Inside that loop, it calls the Read method. It then enters another nested loop, this time for 100 times. And in that inner loop, it calls the Scan method. Finally, we exit both loops, and we call the

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Five Underplayed Premises Of TDD | Video

TDD, Geekery, Modern-Synthesis / / 8 minutes of reading
This entry is part [part not set] of 9 in the series Underplayed Premises

Five Underplayed Premises Of Test-Driven Development (Transcript) Hey, it’s GeePaw! I’m here to tell you today about five underplayed premises of Test-Driven Development. These premises form the kind of fundament under which almost all TDD proceeds. And when I say that I’m a TDDer, I almost always mean I am operating inside the little ring formed by these five test-driven development premises. Let’s check them out. We’re In This For The Money The first premise of TDD is what we

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