otb-homework-mar-2015

1-presentations.md

1. Ruby - what is bundler? - Tom Clark
2. git - tags vs branches - Tom Bates
3. git - rebase vs merge - Tom Altree
4. Ruby modules and include, extend, prepend - Duncan Smith
5. Ruby's Enumerable and Enumerators - John Foulkes
6. Ruby's blocks, procs and lambdas - Chris Rigby
7. Inheritance vs Composition, with examples in Ruby - James Walsh

1-week-1.md

Week 1 - Homework

1. Complete the remaining exercises (note: you can run each file individually using rspec <filename>)

• Work through them in the following order:
  • spec/open_classes_spec.rb
  • spec/dice_project_spec.rb
  • spec/inheritance_spec.rb
  • spec/modules_spec.rb
  • spec/scope_spec.rb
  • spec/class_methods_spec.rb
  • spec/message_passing_spec.rb
  • spec/proxy_object_project_spec.rb
  • spec/to_str_spec.rb

2. write a 10 minute presentation on your selected topic
3. Use rspec to test drive the harry potter kata

• Fork the academy project on github: https://github.com/tooky/otb-academy-mar-2015/
• Create a new branch
• Work in the harry_potter directory
• use rspec --init
• Use small, frequent commits showing how you worked through the problem.
• Write good commit messages
• Send me a pull request with your code

2-week-2.md

Week 2

1. Take another stab at the bowling kata. Keep in mind the idea of shameless green - focus on working code first, then use refactoring to improve the design.

• Commit frequently and use the commit messages to document your progress.
• Create a pull request back to the main repository with your solution.
• Suggested test cases:
  • All Gutters (20*0 => 0)
  • All Singles (20*1 => 20)
  • All Spares (21*5 => 150)
  • All Strikes (12*10 => 300)
  • Mixed Game ([2,4,5,3,1,6,8,2,0,2,6,4,10,7,3,0,10,6,4,7] => 116)

2. Write a blog post explaining Ruby Method dispatch, reference include, extend, prepend and super (if you don't have a blog you can just publish a gist.
3. Read Think Like (a) Git and create a short presentation about the thing you found most interesting, confusing or suprising.
4. As a group - watch Sandi Metz's Magic Tricks of Testing, split into two groups and produce posters showing your most important takeaways.

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