Deliberate practice

Deliberate Practice
Becoming a better programmer
Alex Aitken @alexaitken Thoughtcorp blog.thoughtcorp.com Jason Cheong-Kee-You @jpcky Mighty Jupiter mightyjupiter.com

Agenda Define Deliberate Practice One Per Week FizzBuzz Randoori Object Calisthenics Demo How do you start?

Deliberate Practice

One Hour Per Week

FizzBuzz

Debrief

calisthenics Gymnastic exercises to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement

Object Calisthenics
Use only one level of indentation per method
Don’t use the else keyword
Wrap all primitives and strings
Use only one dot per line
Don’t abbreviate
Keep all entities small
Don’t use any classes with more than two instance variables
Use first-class collections
Don’t use any getters/setters/properties

Debrief

How do you start?

References Object Calisthenics http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/06/object-calisthe nics-first-thoughts/ Katas http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataCatalogue Doing practice with your team http://blog.thoughtcorp.co m/2011/07/18/practice-built-in/

Credits
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnuz/4111206/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/totalaldo/503335275/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/2799103829/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/3793605961/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulmoody/643667931/

Deliberate practice

by alex_aitken on Nov 03, 2011

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