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Try and aim for things that you can build in a couple of evenings or an afternoon. It’s more important to get things out, than working on things that seem bigger.
Once you’ve hacked a few things together:
You’ll get ideas for bigger things
You’ll have the mini-project code that you can put into the next thing.
This is a little challenge to find out which tools programmers use to get their everyday tasks done quickly.
You got your hands on some data that was leaked from a social network and you want to help the poor people.
Luckily you know a government service to automatically block a list of credit cards.
The service is a little old school though and you have to upload a CSV file in the exact format. The upload fails if the CSV file contains invalid data.
The CSV files should have two columns, Name and Credit Card. Also, it must be named after the following pattern:
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Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness
Instructions to Subjects Included With Task Slips Packet
This is a study of interpersonal closeness, and your task, which we think will be quite enjoyable, is simply to get close to your partner. We believe that the best way for you to get close to your partner is for you to share with them and for them to share with you. Of course, when we advise you about getting close to your partner, we are giving advice regarding your behavior in this demonstration only, we are not advising you about your behavior outside of this demonstration.
In order to help you get close we've arranged for the two of you to engage in a kind of sharing game. You're sharing time will be for about one hour, after which time we ask you to fill out a questionnaire concerning your experience of getting close to your partner.
You have been given three sets of slips. Each slip has a question or a task written on it. As soon as you both finish reading these instructions, you should
The philosophy behind Documentation-Driven Development is a simple: from the perspective of a user, if a feature is not documented, then it doesn't exist, and if a feature is documented incorrectly, then it's broken.
Document the feature first. Figure out how you're going to describe the feature to users; if it's not documented, it doesn't exist. Documentation is the best way to define a feature in a user's eyes.
Whenever possible, documentation should be reviewed by users (community or Spark Elite) before any development begins.
Once documentation has been written, development should commence, and test-driven development is preferred.
Unit tests should be written that test the features as described by the documentation. If the functionality ever comes out of alignment with the documentation, tests should fail.
When a feature is being modified, it should be modified documentation-first.
When documentation is modified, so should be the tests.
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This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people.
I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena.
GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it
in this talk.
Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant
to get popular.