Code Craftsman Saturdays Deep Dive: Clay Dowling on When/How To Use Mocks

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Code Craftsman Saturdays alternates each month between a regular Code Retreat format workshop (skills practice/reinforcement) and a deep-dive format (learn new things). October is focused on when and how to use mocks. Mr. Clay Dowling will walk us through this much needed practice. We will do the "Code Smell Recognition and Clean Code" another time.

We will have breakfast together starting by 8:30 and get to know one another. Around 9 I introduce the challenge and get people started. You and your chosen pair will wrestle with the problem for 45 minutes, and then we'll put laptops down and do a brief retrospective. The retrospectives allow all to share what they learned and to maybe choose something to do differently next time. Then we do it again.

What's going on here is learning, and practice. One of the best values is learning from one another, and pair programming with people you would otherwise never have the opportunity to work with. You get exposed to different ways of thinking, different habits, and different skills, roughly 6 times in the course of one day. We do it every month, so we've gotten pretty good at it.

The primary focus of a deep dive in new learning. The primary focus of a code retreat is practicing our skills until they become great habits.