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…
Got back in the saddle with this episode, and had a shorter recording that basically went well. Someone pointed out in the comments that I had reversed king and queen position for the black pieces, so I started off by fixing that, and then moved on to fixing a bug and finally implementing the Rook…
This episode went smoothly until I discovered a bug. Philosophically, I suppose this is the natural state of software development. For my purposes here, though, hunting down the bug caused the episode to balloon to 26 minutes, so I’m going to try a new thing so as to keep the videos a reasonable length of…
