It’s been a little while since I posted to this series, largely because of the holiday time. I’ve wrapped up some things that I’d been working on and am hoping here in the next few weeks to have some time to knock out several episodes of this, so look for an elevated cadence (fingers crossed)….
I’m writing out this paragraph describing what I’m planning to do before recording myself doing anything. This post has been a while in coming because I’ve waffled between whether I should just hand write acceptance/end-to-end tests (what I generally do) or whether I should force you to watch me fumble with a new tool. I’ve…
This episode saw me make the first distinction between friendly and enemy pieces in determining available moves. It had also been a while since I’d worked on the series, so I was a little uncomfortable with how well I was reasoning at compile time about what was happening. The Board class and some of my…
This wasn’t the most productive episode I’ve ever recorded, per se, in terms of functionality, but, hey, it’s always a learning experience to write code. This was kind of table setting for a big, important piece of functionality: distinguishing captures from blocked moves because of friendly pieces. Here’s what I accomplish in this clip: Flesh…
In this post, I set out to do some real refactoring of the Board class. It bothered me enough to take a crack at it and, since this is a fun side project, there really aren’t any constraints. Were I committed to delivering some business value here, I might need to take a look at…
