Thanks all for your suggestions. I've learned an incredible amount from this group and I promised myself I'd share what I learned from the experience after trying some things out.

I'm working with a bunch of manual functional testers that need to know enough code to write automated test using something like Selenium, Visual Studio Coded UI using C#. They also need to write tests just below the UI but not unit tests.

Good or bad, I ended up turning Object Calisthenics on its head - not to encourage any technique but rather to get them to learn C#

Only One Level Of Indentation Per Method --> Ignore

Don't Use The ELSE Keyword --> Avoid "if" and "switch" statements - return true or false statements instead.

Wrap All Primitives And Strings --> You must use the smallest primitive possible to store the data you want

First Class Collections --> You must use System.Collection.Generics for thinks like List<EntityType> or ICollection<EntityType>

One Dot Per Line --> More than 1 dot per line.

Don't Abbreviate --> Variables as compound words or sentences

Keep All Entities Small --> Same

No Classes With More Than Two Instance Variables --> Ignore

No Getters/Setters/Properties --> All data must exist as public or private properties (ie  you must use getters and setters)

All activities done using TDD and pairing. One pairing technique I tried was a perversion of driver-navigator. I called it back-seat-driver. The person with hands on the keyboard can't decide what to type. They must get immediate direction from the back-seat driver. They also ping pong.

Chris, or anyone else for that matter, I am really interested in know what a Koan feels like. I would like to put it to the wider LSCC community to run a hands-on session using koans.

Thanks again

Abid Quereshi

On 17 April 2015 at 11:29, Stephen Henderson <[address removed]> wrote:

Not quite a kata, but when we're onboarding new developers who don't know python we give them an exercise for their first week to write a bare-bones equivalent of one of our production web apps.

The idea is to have an exercise which covers:
- Core language functionality (functions, classes, loops, conditionals, etc.)

- Code organisation for a complete app (modules, tests, requirements, config files, etc.)

- Typical day-to-day dev tasks and libraries like logging, db-access, file IO, etc.

- Business domain concepts (adtech in our case)

This is our standard exercise to write a basic web service for gathering user data from tracking pixels placed on websites: https://gist.github.com/stephenhenderson/79f86024d78143db5e93

Stephen

On 17 April 2015 at 00:58, Abid Quereshi <[address removed]> wrote:

Hello all,

A while ago, I believe the LSCC ran a Kata that took you through several small exercises.

Those 15 or so exercises were intentionally designed or selected to help one learn a new computer language.

I was not at that meetup so I can only speak about it in vague terms. Can someone point me to the Katas? My subjects come form a C or VB Script background (no Object Orientation) and I wanted to try the Katas out on them.

Cheers,

Abid Quereshi

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