Tech Contepts Lab

To really understand something, one first learn the rules and become good at it.
To master something, one needs to experiment with the constraints, twist, bend and sometimes break the rules.

The Tech Concept Lab is such a place.

Going against the general concensus and status quo on select Computer Science, Software Enginering, Software Development habits, processes and cult like practices.

TDD, BDD, the noise has reached cult-like levels. So here is my contribution, when you code, I urge you to let SECT prevail.

• S tory Driven Requirements
• E xample Driven Design
• C ode Driven Development
• T est Driven Delivery

And by all mean, push for 100% test coverage, of those portions of code that matter.

Not every progress is about rebelion. Its less about seeking controversy and more about optimizing for efficiency.

“From spaghetti code to ravioli code:
self-contained modules with value inside”
__ lerina

Here is how I earn my DOUGH. Its all about PASTA.

• P ractice
  
• A dapt (for your constraints)
  
• S tudy (senior’s code)
  
• T week (optimize)
  
• A buse (push it to the limit)

If you enjoy playful mnemonics and applicable bullet list in the context of Software Development, there’s more in this section

Code as a Narrative

Code listings and Tracing code used to be the only way to learn programming back in the days. It left me with a longing for something similar in the durrent wonderful of git and other publically browsable code repositories. But short of painstakinly going from commit to comit until the Head, how can we get the same sense of code discovery?

I’ve been playing with the concept of code as a narrative recently. The notion is not new. It has had various definition and partial implementation.
From Literate programming, literateprogramming.com, Donald Knuth - Literate programming - youTube
to Pseudocode Programming Process
to Code That Reads Like a Story

The particular version emerging from this Tech Lab is Code as a Narrative. I find it very useful as a teaching tool. But I’m not fixed yet as its value in a professional project. Thats why is still in the Tech Lab Section

If you are eager for tutorial, code-alongs, and code walkthrough head-on to the next section.