Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete a class, and re-implement the class using only the tests as a guide. Then, compare and contrast our implementation with the original!
I suggested the Rake codebase, and this video is an unedited recording of the session. Enjoy!
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Excellent idea! Anytime you’re in sync with the likes of Ben Franklin, good things are going to happen: https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-benjamin-franklin-method-how-to-actually-learn-to-write-1ac4ebc7c3a7
This was awesome. Thank you for sharing!