071: Deliberate Practice

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• Practice makes permanent
• Flow book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Key Principles of Deliberate Practice

• Isolation

• Appropriate level of challenge

• Introspection

• Code katas

  • Fuzz buzz
  • Tennis kata
  • Roman Numerals Kata
  • Gilded rose

• Constraint games

• TDD is a core tenant of katas

• Exercism

• Martin Janiczek fuzz testing (and elm-test v2) episode

• Advent of Code

• Dillon's elm-katas starter repo

• Elm Gilded Rose starter repo

• TCR (test commit revert)

• Dillon and Corey Haines pairing using TCR on the Gilded Rose kata in Elm

• Dillon's example TCR script for snapshot testing workflow