Programming For Non-Programmers

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# Programming For Non-Programmers

## Amitai Schleier

### 2018/08/14

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1. Press 'C' to clone and move it to projector
2. Press 'P' to show these here presenter notes

### Presenter notes would go here

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## 1. Try _Test-Driven Development_

## 2. Try _Mob Programming_

## 3. Collect learnings
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## Is there one for this meetup?

## Remind ourselves how we want to behave

## Like TDD, declaring our intentions helps us live up to them
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## "Tests" on the left

## "Code" on the right

## Let's write a story

## I'll start us off with a test
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## What we wrote

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## Everyone

## Same problem

## Same computer

## Think out loud, together

## Driver, Navigator, rotate
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## The FizzBuzz game

## Say goodbye to these slides!

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- Fun, human, logical, collaborative, not scary
- The TDD story helped introduce how we'd be coding
- Errors were caught quickly because others were paying attention
- Deciding what to do next is an art, and this is humanizing to see
- Realistic: we got errors and searched Stack Overflow
- Principles apply equally here and in enterprise
- Human performance (maintainability) almost always matters more than machine performance
- Accomodated both hands-on and observing learners
- Visualize what we expect, what we got, what to do
- Same process for these notes: write something small, check for correctness
- Thin vertical slicing: solving a small part of the problem completely
- Keep tests simple, so we don't need to test _those_ too
- Mob Programming as a team practice
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- <a href="https://twitter.com/schmonz/status/787370782645063680">Results from the first TDD For Non-Programmers</a> (twitter.com)
- <a href="https://twitter.com/schmonz/status/1010534914964492291">Results from a recent one</a> (twitter.com)
- <a href="https://twitter.com/schmonz/status/1025413109056512000">Ivan Sanchez's writeup</a> (twitter.com)
- [Zach Bonaker's detailed writeup](https://web.archive.org/web/20230321132408/https://agileoutloud.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/tdd-by-storywriting/) (wordpress.com)
- [Mob Programming Guidebook](https://leanpub.com/mobprogrammingguidebook) (leanpub.com)
- <a href="../../../../06/24/agile-coach-camp-germany-2018/">Why I do "Programming For Non-Programmers"</a> (schmonz.com)
- <a href="../../../../../talk/2018-tour/">Coding Tour Summer 2018</a> (schmonz.com)
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# Programming For Non-Programmers

## Amitai Schleier

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