Global Day Code Retreat 2012

Just to recap what I posted on Google+.

9:28 AM  –  Starting this year’s Google-based Global Day Code Retreat.
Hopefully, will be fruitful.

10:52 AM  –  First session over.

Lessons: We program stupidly when under pressure.
Session two about to start.

11:40 AM  – Second session over.

Found some interesting tricks I thought of in the spur of the moment.
I hate pressure… :P

12:41 PM (edited)  – Third session over.

Python was a while back. But test to code to test to code back and forth between programmers is an interesting mechanic (See picture).
At least we get a break for lunch now.

2:39 PM  – Fourth session over.

Evil coder and test builder. I built tests. Good exercise. … not enough time…
Now it’s time for some brutal refactoring.

3:53 PM (edited)  – Last session about to start.

I was more teaching than learning in the past session but that is also a good thing.
Wonder what they will give us next.
Answer: Take what you learned and implements however you like.

4:55 PM  – Wrap up.

For me, I’ll some it up as: “How I stopped being afraid and started to love TDD.”
I wonder if this is the idea of the Code Retreat or just this instance’s interpretation of it. Probably the latter. But I overall liked it and thought it good.


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