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…
Things are really starting to flow with the acceptance tests now. In this episode, not only did I mercifully not uncover any important bugs, but I defined knight movement in acceptance tests in a way that I feel pretty good about. I’m learning as I go about using SpecFlow, which is cool, and as the…
