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by listrophy 5347 days ago
It's not about writing things quickly. It's not about learning the basics of TDD. It's not about learning and solving a new problem. Hell, it's not even about solving the problem. In these 45 minute chunks, you will not solve the problem.

Because the goal is not to solve the problem.

The goal is to realize that many of your preconceptions of how you should write code ought to be bent, modified, or broken.

I participated in a code retreat less than a month ago (led by, of course, Corey)... I'd always thought I was pretty good at TDD and OO design. I like to think that I'm humble enough to know I wasn't an expert. But after the code retreat, I realized that I have much further to go than I thought.

AAA+++++ HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!