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Summary
We explore user stories, one of the central tools for doing
agile programming.
Related Pages
Overview
- User stories.
- Exercise: Developing user stories.
- Additional work time: Hartl 3.
Administrivia
- The Registrar's office wants me to remind you that today is the
add/drop deadline. (Yes, we've moved it forward a week. Don't
blame me)
- Friday PSA.
Upcoming Work
- Reading Journal for Monday
- You have now read three different introductions to Ruby (the Codecademy
course, the SaaSbook, and Hartl). What do you see as the major
differences between the approaches? What approach do you find
most compelling?
- Now that you've seen a broader introduction to Ruby, what do you
consider the most exciting aspects of working with Ruby?
- What aspect of Ruby confused you the most? Try to explain it in
your own words.
- For Monday: Finish the chapter 3 project. Send me a link to your GitHub
repo.
- For Monday: Skim Hartl 4 and do any setup you consider necessary.
- For Wednesday: SaaSBook 2 and 4.
Good Things to Do
Academic
- Africans vs African Americans, Noon, Saturday, JRC 101.
- Franz Schubert's Winterreise, Sunday, 2 p.m. Sebring-Lewis
- Next week's Rosenfield Symposium on Campaign Finance Reform.
- Monday, February 8, 4:15 p.m. in Bucksbaum Miriam Langer enjoins you to
"Do Your Work in Public"
(part of the series "Digital in Public: Intellectual and Technical Skills
for Making a Difference")
- Monday, February 8, 7:30-9:00, JRC 101: The Complex Relation Between
Alcohol and Sexual Assault
- Noon Tuesday in the White PDR: Bowie, Mickey, and the NFL: Copyright in
the 21st century (copies of the reading outside Sam's office)
- 7:30 pm next Tuesday in ARH 131 - Funding for unfunded internships
- Anything in next week's Carnival and Creativity series
Peer
- Track and Field Grinnell Invite February 6. (10 a.m.)
Other
User Stories
- What are they?
- How do we build them?
- How do we use them?
User Stories Exercise
We are developing a new four-year planning system for the College ...
- Whole group question: Who are your audiences?
- We will break into individual groups to conduct user interviews.
- We will come back together with the stories we have gathered.
- Strive for relatively small/narrow stories.
Work Time
Continue working on Hartl 3.