02:50 – RubyQuiz
- Practice Tactics
05:19 – CodeKata
07:20 – Learn by Play
07:56 – Have It Deployed
- “If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong!”
09:29 – Ship Something Critical
- RubyMotion
- Dig Into or Try Refactoring an Existing Project
- Modify the Rails Repository
- “If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong!”
15:06 – Teach Other People
- The whole point of the refactoring is that at every step the code is not broken
17:17 – Experimentation While Writing Books
22:00 – Code Retreats
22:22 – International Conference on Functional Programming Contest
- 72 Hour Programming Contest
26:29 – Pair Programming Playtime
28:28 – Play =? Timeboxed Spike Iteration
- Sites that Provide Quizzes/Exercises:
33:20 – NPR's Sunday Puzzle
36:11 – Webster's Dictionary word list on the Mac/Linux at /usr/share/dict/words
36:59 – Bookworm (Online Game)
38:28 – What do you think about the pointlessly stupid problems like writing a Ruby quine?
39:18 – Code Golf
40:58 – Writing Code & Reading Code
- “You get good knowing when to obey the rules and you get great knowing when to break the rules.”
44:56 – Practice of Learning to Solve Problems vs Learning the Language
- Confidence in Your Coding Skills
48:50 – David's Blog Post on Mandelbrot Sets
- Top Coder
- Code Brawl
- remotepairprogramming.com
- SFMTA Clipper Card
