Tech Skills that Matter

⚡️ Tech Skills That Matter: TDD and Pairing done right! ⚡️

Whether you're a tech lead, a developer or a technically minded tester, this workshop will help you elevate skills core to quality software development.

Join us for a “serious fun” one-day challenge based around a coding puzzle - designing an API for a Mars Rover. 

This workshop is for you if you want to:

• experience true technical collaboration
• work through technical collaboration issues in a fun, gamified format
• deepen your understanding of Test-Driven Design/Development (TDD) and pairing through hands-on, iterative learning
• rediscover the fun in software development and bring that spark into your professional work
  

This practical event that will help you build towards mastery in two key skill areas that are foundational to modern approaches like Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD):

• Test-Driven Design / Development, and 
• Pair programming

They have their roots in the most technically rigorous Agile Software Development approach: eXtreme Programming (XP).

What should I bring?

Bring a laptop with a working development environment and programming language that you are comfortable in* and a unit testing framework. Please have an empty project running a single unit test ready to go.

*Examples will be given in pseudocode, perhaps Python and JavaScript, but the workshop is programming language agnostic.

Your guide:

• Dr Daniel Prager, Director of Coaching and Learning, Everest Engineering