Uncle Bob and my personal programming Kata

My first [Uncle Bob] event was the 2017 [GoTo conference] in Amsterdam, where Robert Martin delivered a talk like he must have done a thousand times. And many of you will probably have seen some version of it way back when. For me it was all new, having managed to somehow avoid the experience for years. He said many things that made sense to me at the time, but what got stuck in my head was the idea of a programming Kata. The advice I distilled from his words was to take a small programming problem and try to implement a solution over and over again. The actual solution would be less important than the act of solving the problem. Allowing you to experiment in a safe and well known environment. Small techniques for problem solving would gradually become part of muscle memory, much like happens, or so I'm led to believe, in martial arts. I liked the idea and found myself a small problem: read more...