This post is a continuation of our prior work on the OCR coding kata. I’ve started narrating, and am keeping the parts down to fifteen minutes or less. This one is about nine minutes, and starts in on the checksum calculation, specifically concentrating on making the digits in the account number aware of their position [...]
Continuing with the Kata Bank – OCR problem from part 1, we move on to actually parsing out some numbers from their corresponding string representations. A bit long, and still no narration, but this will be the last installment that will be sans voice.
As my development team has been taking up test-driven development, I’ve sensed on at least a couple of occasions that the words I’ve used to describe such haven’t been enough. Pairing has been of worth, but I wanted something more “on the record.” To wit, a video series where I lay down my take on [...]
In homage to Rob Conery’s “Vim Kata One,” I came up with my own little ditty, to be performed in any other text editor known to man other than Vim. Even a Visual Studio code window. Type each of these lines, and also do what they say: I will write a line and hit Enter [...]