Workshop: Agile Technical Skills
Location:
- Albert, 2nd flr.
Prerequisites
- Laptop with a coding environment installed
- Recommended: the latest Java JDK, the Eclipse IDE, and the EclEMMA plugin for Eclipse
Want to try Mob Programming? Have you heard that Pair Programming and TDD are Good Things, but no matter how many times you’ve tried it, you haven’t experienced that goodness yourself? Looking for ways to make relentless refactoring work for your team? Then this session is for you.
We’ll practice Agile engineering skills together in the style of a coding dojo, using code kata as our medium. We’ll try out pair programming techniques and practices. We’ll mob together and build technical skills on some of the best code kata for Test Driven Development and refactoring.
This session is for anyone who can write code. Bring your laptop and favorite coding environment already installed. For best results, bring your laptop preinstalled with the latest Java JDK, the Eclipse IDE, and the EclEMMA plugin for Eclipse.
All levels are welcome.
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