Game of Life Code Retreat for BDD by Dave King
Details
We'll do four pair programming sessions on Conway's Game of Life. After each session we'll have a brief retrospective. At the start of each session, we'll start with a blank slate and a new partner.
We'll focus on Behavior Driven Development where we write a test, or specification first then write code to pass the specification, then write the next specification etc. This is a chance to practice development, there will be some theory, but mostly coding.
Bring your laptop, with your favorite development environment and testing framework setup and ready to go.
Saturday June 21st
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction, plug in laptops, set initial pairs. Cover Rules of the Game
09:15 - 10:00 Session 0
10:15 - 10::30 Retrospective 0
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Session 1
11:30 - 11:45 Retrospective 1
11:45 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:30 Session 2
14:30 - 15:15 Retrospective 2
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15 Session 3
16:15 - 16:30 Retrospective 3
16:35 - 16:40 Roll credits.
Facilitated by Dave King
Dave is a software developer, educator and mentor with nearly 20 years of experience. He writes code and helps others write code. You can find him on twitter: @IdeaJoy (https://twitter.com/ideajoy)
Lunch will be provided for this event. If you have specific dietary concerns please let one of the organizers know and we'll gladly accommodate.
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Game of Life Code Retreat for BDD by Dave King