Yearly Archives: 2014

The last arithmetic levels get much more challenging. Unfortunately, I had to re-record the levels 11 to 13, because I messed up the sound settings in my new recording tool. In exchange, you can now enjoy Let’s Develop in Full HD 😉 I also did my best to explain how […]

[LD] Code Hunt #03 – Arithmetic – 01.11 to 01.14 ...

24 Jun, 2014 in Code Hunt / Let's Develop by letsdeveloper

Let the hunt begin. The first couple of tasks seem rather easy. Hope you come up with some real challenges, Microsoft! Share this:

[LD] Code Hunt #02 – Arithmetic – 01.01 to 01.10 ...

17 Jun, 2014 in Code Hunt / Let's Develop by letsdeveloper

Follow me thru the training tasks of Microsoft’s developer game Code Hunt. Not much of a challenge for a real Code Hunter, but just enough to learn the rules. Share this:

[LD] Code Hunt #01 – Training [blind] | Let’s Develop ...

13 Jun, 2014 in Code Hunt / Let's Develop by letsdeveloper

In this episode I undo part of the refactoring from the last episode, where I tried to do to many things at a time and, thereby, broke my tests. I then redo the refactoring one step at a time, while continuously executing my test suite to verify that nothing broke. […]

Conway’s Game of Life #5 – Refactoring Redone

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper

In this episode I start to refactor the Universe, since it’s implementation, though working, is very redundant. As I go along, I run into a typical issue when doing refactoring: I try to do to many things at once. As a result, my refactoring breaks the Universe. Stay tuned for […]

Conway’s Game of Life #4 – Refactoring Counterexample

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / Refactoring by letsdeveloper

In this episode I complete the Universe’s updating logic. During the implementation, I accept that redundancy is introduced into the production code. Stay tuned for the next episode where I make use of my test suite, to refactor the Universe. All code of this and all subsequent episodes is available […]

Conway’s Game of Life #3 – Updating the Universe

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

In this episode I start to develop the game environment, i.e., the Universe. As I go along, I emphasize readability of tests and explain how to configure Eclipse to help with static imports. All code of this and all subsequent episodes is available in a Github Repository: https://github.com/salsolatragus/letsdeveloper Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #2 – Clean Tests and Static ...

28 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Eclipse / Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper

In this episode I clean up and complete the tests and implementation of the game’s core rules, using the JUnitParams extension for JUnit. Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #1 – Parameterized Tests with JUnitParams

26 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / JUnit / TDD / Tools by letsdeveloper

Pilot of my “Let’s Develop” (LD) project. In this episode I explain and implement the rules of Conway’s Game of Life in a TDD fashion. Share this:

Conway’s Game of Life #0 – TDD

26 May, 2014 in Conway's Game of Life / Let's Develop tagged Game Development / TDD by letsdeveloper