by Emily Bache | Aug 25, 2011 | Code Kata
I’ve been working on a kata called “Tennis”*, which I find interesting, because it is quite quick to code, yet is a big enough problem to be worth doing. It’s also possible to enumerate pretty much all the allowed scores, and get very...
by Emily Bache | Dec 3, 2010 | Experience Report, Opinion
Last night at GothPy we had a play with Django, a web application framework for Python. I’m fairly familiar with Rails, so it was interesting to see a different take on solving the same kinds of problems. I downloaded Django for the first time when preparing for...
by Emily Bache | Nov 1, 2010 | Code Kata
I was at the local Ruby User Group last night, and I coded up KataMontyHall (see below) as a prepared Kata in front of the group. I got some great comments and feedback while I was coding, and I think the solution I ended up with was better than any I had created by...
by Emily Bache | Sep 24, 2010 | Review
A little while ago, Fredrik Wendt and I put together a little survey and sent it to all the people we know who have attended coding dojo meetings here in Göteborg. There are several groups in the city which run these kinds of meetings from time to time. We wanted to...
by Emily Bache | Apr 30, 2010 | Coding Skills
I’ve been working full time in Ruby now for about a month, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it. In many ways it’s not so different from Python. I took some of the code I talked about struggling with in my last post, and set about...
