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 [http://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Conway%27s_Game_of_Life]. It's a simple set of requirements. > The universe…
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…
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…
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…
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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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…