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My apprenticeship is over, just now it’s been a big relief not having to worry about how bad I am at self organising and literacy. There…
This could be my last post, I find out tomorrow if I have improved enough to continue my apprenticeship at holidayCheck. So the first part…
As mentioned yesterday the exercise form learn-c-the-hard-way was to write a couple of sorting algorithms. Unlike most of the previous…
Today’s exercise from learn-C-the-hard-way was to copy from the book, and test a program that created and modified double linked lists…
That was the question i had for today, “what makes a good test”, my short response was “adds value and checks our assumptions”, so some of…
Moved learn-c-the-hard-way to public repository As mentioned last week that since I regularly mention talk about my progress with learn c…
Today started with refining/grooming tickets from my apprenticeship backlog into more descriptive and smaller tasks to do next week. There’s…
Most of todays activities where split between using the project template I wrote yesterday on today’s exercise from learn-c-the-hard-way…
Continuing from the post yesterday when I briefly touched on the concept of creative and defensive programming i thought it would be best to…
Not every thing is readable Today started differently than others as there was no morning kata, so instead I ended up reading a few articles…
Continuing from last Friday, project logfind has been completed. It took three attempts to get the core functionality working, first i…
A large amount of today was absorbed trying to figure out unit testing in C, unfortunately the first frame work I to used cmocka isn’t…
Today started with the morning kata working in which we where asked to count the number of vowels in a string. The solution could be a one…
Today started of different from other days, I attended a monthly morning breakfast meeting the CEO of holidayCheck holds for new…
I’m probably going to get this wrong. Both Test First Programming (TFP) and Test Dirven Development (TDD) start with writing a test. From…
The big learning for today was that test driven development (TDD) and test first programming (TFP) are not the same although may share some…
Jonas Bonér This morning instead of the daily kata, the apprenticeship team and myself watched Jonas Bonér’s talk ” Designing Events-first…
The day started with a watching a video with the apprentice group, today’s video was about software craftsmanship by Sandro Mancuso https…
The first part of today was spent breaking a bubble sort program (written in c) so I could debug the program using zed’s debugging macros…
First post, fourth blog and starting the half way through apprenticeship at HolidayCheck, and not doing as well as I ought to be. Red phase…