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This week at Experience we knocked down the first 30 expectations of the Scala Koans. In Experience “hot potato” fashion, the crew got through all of the exercises by switching after test driving a problem on the big screen, one after another. It was GREAT FUN and we got to kick the tires of Scala, a powerful [...]

Experience Foundation is continuing on with SongBirdNation work and fine tuning the music transposition tool. We also having been diving into Cucumber, RSpec, WATIR, and SQL. There’s a lot of great stuff in the pipeline for the group!

The past week the Experience Foundation team has been working out what apprenticeship means to companies today. Here are a few items. Apprentices usually come with good reference. Known personal references are even better. Apprenticeship changes lives. Everyone learns on the job but apprentices also commit to learning outside of their normal work day with [...]

Tonight we finished off the remaining work to have a pretty functional tic tac toe game up and running in the console. We had fun! Here’s a snippet view.

Last week at Experience Foundation we took a night to focus solely on breaking down a seemingly BIG project for estimation. The project’s product owner was with us that night and has received quotes from local firms ranging from $30k – $350k! We realized that much of the gap between estimates was due to the product owner [...]

We performed some refactoring to the TIC-TAC-TOE app and extracted a Gameboard class to store the state of the game and ask questions to in order to know if someone as won. To complete the logic for determining if any combination of 3 cells has a winner we wrote the following test. private static final [...]