Fundamentals One Boot Camp

Competencies, Behaviours and Knowledge units

TC1 Logic: writes good quality code (logic) with sound syntax in at least one language
TC4 Test: can test code and analyse results to correct errors found using either V-model manual testing and/or using unit testing
TC10 Can apply good practice approaches according to the relevant paradigm (for example object oriented, event driven or procedural)

Resources Required

Slides
Laptops
Internet access
Post-its
Markers
A3 paper for apprentices to draw on
Whiteboard (or flipcharts if this is not possible)

Mentors / Languages

Two–three mentors required in addition to leads. These should be able to cover support for the required languages.

Several exercises (katas and code starters) will need to be ported to required languages.

Prep-work for apprentices

None

Follow-on tasks

Organisation mentors should look to exercise the knowledge we’ve covered in the boot camp. Below are suggestions for tasks that would do this, but please use your own judgement to work out what to do. There is no need for anything to be returned to MD or the presenters—it’s just a learning exercise.

Draw a diagram showing how the classes interact in some code you have been working on
We’d like them to recognise Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism
Take a look at one of your codebases and find examples of classes with multiple responsibilities

Slides

The slides can be viewed from the link at the top of the repository.

Exercises

Identify objects from business scenario (groups)
Model a pack of playing cards (groups)
Use abstraction to make the Snap! game work for normal cards (groups)
Refactor the card model using inheritance (groups)
Use polymorphism to implement Super Snap! using a mixture of card types
Adapting Checkout Kata (pairs)
Separating responsibilities from Checkout Kata (pairs)

Boot Camp Summary

Object Orientation

Programming paradigms
Why OO?
How to think about objects

Source Control and GitHub

Why source control
Create, clone, commit, push

OO Principles

Modelling some classic scenarios with objects
Principles
- Encapsulation
  - Apply to modelling
  - Rewrite some existing code to remove inappropriate intimacy and coupling
  - Code review some existing code
- Abstraction
  - Apply to modelling
  - Rewrite some existing code to abstract complexity
  - Explain difference between encapsulation and abstraction
  - Introduce to interfaces
- Polymorphism
  - Apply to modelling
  - Give some examples
- Inheritance

Single Responsibility Principle

Cohesion
Functional Decomposition
Critiquing and adapting poorly implemented checkout kata

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