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Game Of Life with @lunivore

Uncle Bob — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:40:21 -0500

At the #coderetreat in Orlando I spent an hour programming with @lunivore (Liz Keogh). We worked in Clojure on Conway’s game of life. It was quite an experience!

Liz was not very familiar with Clojure, so I felt I had the advantage. Wrong! By the end of the hour she had taken charge and was programming rings around me. It was a lot of fun; if a bit humbling.

Liz came into the session knowing the structure of the algorithm she wanted to implement. She just didn’t know how to implement it in Clojure. When the starting gun was fired, she showed me a picture of a glider (a standard form in life) and said she wanted this to be the acceptance test.

During the session we wrote only a very few unit tests, each very focussed on one particular part of the problem. The size of the steps was considerably larger than I am used to in Java or Ruby; yet it didn’t seem to matter. Writing functions in clojure is easy, and apparently far less error prone.

We finished 10 minutes before the end of the session, and had some time to refactor.

I’ve posted the code below. I’ve cleaned it up a bit (being unable to leave it alone); but the algorithm remains the same; as are the tests.

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