cyber-dojo tips

• Repeat your practice. Repetition frees up mental capacity creating space for improvement.
  Don't be too concerned about finishing; think about improving.
• cyber-dojo is designed to encourage team practice and works well with two (or more) people at each computer, periodically rotating the current keyboard drivers to different computers as navigators.
• After each practice use the dashboard to start a review. Look for evidence of...
  • starting with a failing test
  • refactoring
  • overly ambitious steps
  • improving the diagnostic
• Practice refactoring.
• Allow at most N amber traffic-lights (total or in-a-row)...
  • per animal
  • per cyber-dojo
  • repeat with reduced value of N
• Turn on traffic-light colour prediction. Allow at most N incorrect predictions...
  • per animal
  • per cyber-dojo
  • repeat with reduced value of N
• Set social challenges...
  • Change keyboard drivers before starting each new practice
  • Change keyboard drivers during a practice
  • Change pairs before starting each new practice
  • Change pairs during a practice
• Set technical challenges...
  • no loops
  • no conditionals
  • no division or modulus
  • immutable data structures only
  • no mouse
  • no data structures
  • maximum 5 lines per method
  • maximum 2 levels of indentation
  • the possibilities are endless!
• When everyone is at green set a challenge to either...
  • find some code you can delete and the tests still all pass
  • find a bug, and write a failing test for it
• Create a custom starting point...
  • with all the tests, but none of the code
  • with all the code, but none of the tests
  • with a specific fault - which pair can fix it first?
• Play the average-time-to-green-game.