resources for practicing your craft

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Resources for practicing your craft

– The connected world– Theoretical

– Books, videos, courses, magazines

– Practical– Kata,pet projects, open source

Agenda

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Recent TDD activity

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Recent TDD activity...

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#whyitdd

Definition

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“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”

• Learn directly from GURU’s• Comprehensive• Cheap• Time consuming

Theretical resources – Books

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Theretical resources – Courses

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  Pluralsight Udemy Industrial logicWeb based 

x x x

App support 

x x  

Offline content 

x x  

”Certifications” on completion

x x  

Reading instructions

  x x

Exercises 

(x) (x) x

Tests 

x   x

Personalized feedback 

    x

       Cost $29, $49 per month

 FREE, paid 

$140-$250 per course, discount on box sets 

Industrial logic offerings

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CoursesBox sets

• Watch & learn (no exercises)• See the experts do TDD

Theretical resources – Videos

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James Shore Lets play TDD

cleancoders.com 

$12, $18, ~1hour episodes

pragprog.com $30, ~2 hours

jamesshore.com FREE

• No magazines about Craftsmanship in particular• However, articles about or related do occur

Theretical resources... Magazines

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• Small exercises• Practice everyday skills and muscle memory• Try it at http://cyber-dojo.org/

Practical resources – Code kata

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• Bigger scope – added realism• Pick something you are passionate about

If you lack imagination, have a look at

Practical resources – Pet projects

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• Could also be open source• Put what you learn to use

On the job training

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• Fresh graduate– Learn design principles (SOLID) and some patterns– Introductory to TDD and test doubles– Practice by writing code!

• TDD practitioner– Follow TDD guru’s on twitter– Clean coders advanced TDD videos– Books: Effective unit testing, the Art of unit testing...

Training profilesgoal: learn TDD

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If you liked this presentation, have a look at…• May issue of agile record is about TDD.• This presentation was based on an article in it.• Formerly a PDF magazine, since last issue, a blog.• http://www.agilerecord.com/

Agile record

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