Create TDD week

[dearshrewdwit]

• [x] Learning Objectives
• [x] Day 1
• [x] Day 2
• [x] Day 3
• [x] Day 4
• [x] Day 5
• [x] Document afternoon teacher debrief for exercises

Requirements

• Learn by doing focused
• JIT teaching
• Same problem domain for the whole week
• Problem domain chunked into 3 stand alone parts
• Each part has differentiated learning journeys - scaffolded, standard, and further.

[dearshrewdwit]

Students were not comfortable using JavaScript. We ended up slowing down and focusing on fundamental JS as well as TDD.

I ended up focusing on the following learning objectives:

• Explain how TDD relates to the software development lifecycle
• Explain what the differences are for tests of different software components
• Use an appropriate test framework according for the kind of software component to be built
• Test-drive a program with multiple functions with unit tests

[dearshrewdwit]

Recordings: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1bUyS_KmEQEC4xW-PfnHxt2c_McnYw1sr?ths=true

Monday - Introduced TDD, week long exercise Tuesday - Demonstrated first requirements Thursday - Demonstrated remaining requirements

Learnings

• Students need more practice using javascript and problem solving.
• Their use of JS has been very focused on DOM manipulation or Express-related to the extent they see it as a separate DSL and distinct from JS.
• Mindset of TDD the most important.
• Students were not used to regular start times at 9:30am and 2:30pm - Attendance was 50-75% usually.