• Course: Test-Driven Development
  • Date entered: 2012-02-17 14:38:58 UTC
  • Course rating: very good
  • Most useful learnings:
  • Concepts v exercises: good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: very good
  • Exercise improvements: all of the exercises were very helpful. I wish we had more time to spend to nail down some of the more difficult concepts through exercises.
  • Instructor comments: James explained the reasoning behind TDD very well; and clarified a lot of questions we had before coming to class.
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: Yes; I am ready to practice TDD on my current project
  • Challenges to applying: in order to apply TDD effectively; refactoring needs to be done to existing code; and I think refactoring will take more effort.
  • Other comments: This is a very good intro class; but I think it will be helpful to have an intermediate class where people come and talk about their experiences in real projects.
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: yes
  • Quote permission: yes