Day 27

I kicked off today with some work on my Tic-Tac-Toe board. I still had to finish up implementing the 1 input per move functionality. After a bit of tinkering, I had it looking good and working perfectly! It was a solid start to the morning.

I spent the next couple of hours at Lunch and Learn. I started it off with my coin-changer kata. I memorized the changes that Micah showed me yesterday during IPM and implemented them into my demonstration. I liked his approach better because it introduced me to mapcat and I didn’t have to use Java external libraries. It also made a section of my code much easier to understand

After people presented their internal work, we played Gartic Phone again, I was glad to see my initial suggestion for the game was liked enough for someone to want to play it again.

After L&L, I implemented my difficulty settings for the Tic-Tac-Toe board. Fortunately I finished it closer to my optimistic time-frame, it was a quick addition. All I had to do was run a random number 1-10 that made the AI do a smart guess or a random guess depending on the roll and the AI’s difficulty.

I finished off today with my coin-changer kata video. My mentors challenged me to not speak during the video and still convey information well. I ended up overlaying some text on the screen that guides the viewer. I also added in a circle on the screen that swaps between red, green, and blue to denote what phase of TDD I’m on.

All in all, a very productive day to end the week on. I’ll be set up to dive into my Java HashMap, and GUI kata on monday!