This episode followed right on the heels of Chess TDD 44, in terms of the coding, and was basically a session extending that episode. It wasn’t always pretty, but I made more progress on solving this edge case. I’m in the midst of a pretty brutal stretch of travel, and then my wedding and honeymoon…
En passant is going to be a fairly complicated thing to calculate, given the way I’ve implemented this thing so far. And, true to form, I only got a very thin slice going in this episode. Still, it was measurable progress and it’s good that I was able to slice thinly. What I accomplish in…
This episode was a lot of fun because all of the cards just kind of fell into place and I got the pawn done (with the exception of en passant). I had thought finishing up the pawn was going to take a number of episodes, but then there was a flurry of win. I’ll take…
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…
