Re: Programming now feels like playing a video game!

2020-01-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:51 AM john lunzer wrote: > Not quite exact. The precise and important difference is that in almost > all video games somebody else has written the unit and coverage tests for > you. Writing the tests and coverage yourself would be akin to setting your > own goals which

Re: Programming now feels like playing a video game!

2020-01-23 Thread john lunzer
absorbing > adventure. Computer programming now feels like playing a video game! > > The analogy is exact! > > In a video game, you have more or less clearly defined goals. (In some > games the goal is to figure out what the goal is.) To attain those goals, > there is a well define

Re: Programming now feels like playing a video game!

2020-01-21 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
; testing have turned computer programming into an utterly absorbing > adventure. Computer programming now feels like playing a video game! > > The analogy is exact! > > In a video game, you have more or less clearly defined goals. (In some > games the goal is to figure out what th

Programming now feels like playing a video game!

2020-01-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
The recent Aha's re the connection between unit testing and coverage testing have turned computer programming into an utterly absorbing adventure. Computer programming now feels like playing a video game! The analogy is exact! In a video game, you have more or less clearly defined goals