Talking with a couple of friends a few days ago I discovered they are doing a lot of code katas in these last months. They told me they feel that they are improving their skills as developers, but to be honest I am very skeptical about it.
I really cannot catch how to rewrite the same piece of code again and again until you remember it keystroke by keystroke can make you a better programmer. IMHO it is just a useless and boring to death exercise. And watching a video of somebody else performing a kata (there are tons of such videos all over the internet) seems to me even more boring and pointless. But I also know that there are people who I have in great consideration like Bob Martin (uncle Bob) having a completely different opinion: http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/11/21/whats-all-this-nonsense-about-katas Am I missing something? Is there somebody else who tried to do a kata? If so do you find it of any utility? Cheers, Mario Fusco twitter: @mariofusco -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
