From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T00:48:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Quiz - Degree of Difficulty

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 23:15 +0900, Mark Woodward wrote:
> Just as an aside I noticed you started with Unit Tests in the video. I
> think I know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway. Should I do this for
> *all* quizzes? ie is it a good habit to get into? Not unit testing per se
> but building the test(s) *first*?

I was a bit of a late convert to the full test-driven development thing,
but I do have to say that it very quickly showed it's worth and IMHO
it's the only way to write any code of consequence (i.e. anything more
than a quick and dirty script for some specific task). I've lost count
of the number of times I've totally misunderstood a problem going in,
but managed to refine my understanding as I write some tests.

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk