Koans and Katas, Oh My! Slides and Links From My Øredev 2010 Session Posted on November 9, 2010January 27, 2013 by Cory Foy This morning at Øredev 2010 here in Malmö, Sweden I gave a workshop entitled “Koans and Katas, Oh My!”. I covered various learning models, and we did a lot of hands on exercises showing the power of regular practice in the software profession. As one attendee said, “I fell in love with TDD again!”. I promised I’d put up the slides and links, so here’s the links, and the slides are at the bottom. Pragmatic Dave Thomas’s CodeKatas site – http://codekata.pragprog.com/ KataCasts – http://www.katacasts.com/ Code Retreats – http://www.coderetreat.com/how-it-works.html The FizzBuzz Kata – http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataFizzBuzz Conway’s Game of Life – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life Gojko Adzic’s Posts on TDD As If You Meant It – Post 1 Post 2 Pragmatic Dave Thomas’ post on Katas, Kumites and Koans – http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/kata_kumite_koa.html Sara Ford’s post on why normal coding is not Kata – http://saraford.net/2010/01/17/coding-is-not-kata/ Ruby Koans – http://rubykoans.com/windows ShuHaRi – http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShuHaRi Koans and Katas, Oh My! From Øredev 2010 View more presentations from Cory Foy.
Thanks for an excellent workshop Cory! I had a lot of fun and it left me so inspired that I will hold a similar workshop for/with my colleagues as soon as I have the chance.