In this episode, fresh off the victory of getting pawn movement right for the white pawns, I start on the black ones by essentially reversing their movement. What I accomplish in this clip: Got the first acceptance test passing for black pawn movement. Here are some lessons to take away: Having one context per test class…
This post was the first of another three that I recorded together. I wanted to tie up some loose ends and move on to implementing pawn movement for black, but I just wound up tying up loose ends. On a meta note, I’m going on vacation out of the country for a week, so I may…
This post was the last of a series of 3 I recorded together, so it picks up right on the heels of episode 39 from a flow perspective. I initially tied up loose ends from the previous episode and then got the pawn’s diagonal capture in place, at least for the white pawns (acceptance tests…
What I accomplish in this clip: Finished implementing the bishop acceptance tests. Introduced the concept of “capture move” and “non-capture move” to piece movement. Made some good headway on the pawn’s diagonal capture capability. Here are some lessons to take away: I’ve mentioned this before in the negative a few times, but I’ll phrase it in…
For this episode, I did something a bit different. I actually recorded the coding for this and then two more episodes on its heels. If you’re following along on github, you’d notice that I’ve checked in code for episode 40, though I still need to do the audio for those next two episodes. In this…
