NOTE: This was written about a year before posting; months before I stumbled on the MicroObject style. This kata is Conway's Game of Life. It's a simple set of requirements. The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is…
The pizza shop is expanding it's offerings! CALZONES! We'll do a 1/2 calzone and a full calzone! $8 and $14 respectively. Based on how we did the Medium pizza last time... Not expecting much work for these. Which... THAT'S THE POINT! µObjects make this easy. Removing a topping... Excellent.…
As an exercise; I'm doing a CodeKata... well... working on extending a code kata via BlackJack. We've done the kata for Bowling. Now we're going to extend it to include BlackJack scoring. BlackJack is a fairly simple game to score. You have points between 1 and 11; you sum them.…
A week into the bowling game, the time it's taken me to complete the exercise decreased quite a bit from the first time I did it. Day 1: 60 minutes Day 2: 45 minutes Day 3: 30 minutes Day 4: 26 minutes Day 5: 15 minutes Day one Even though…
As I find and work through new Kata's to use at TDD Kata's I'll write up my version of the kata here. I expect most will be similar to the source I find; and I don't expect any to be original. Bowling Game Summary: Create program to score a bowling…
I never quite understood the practicality of Code and TDD Katas. The idea behind a kata is that you do it over and over and over... Until you can do it in your sleep. "Why would I want to code tic-tac-toe a thousand times over?" "Why build…