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Praise for and Photo Protocol from @JohannesLink’s Class on Test-Driven-Development

Johannes Link just finished his Test-driven Development classes (both introduction and advanced methods) at FAU, facing an audience of regular students, Ph.D. students, and industry participants.

The class evaluation shows that not only did participants enjoy the the class but are asking for more. Selecting from several similar comments:

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Impressions from @johanneslink’s Test-Driven Development Course at FAU

Johannes Link’s course on test-driven development (TDD) is well underway at FAU. He finished the introductory part last week to a full class. Please find some photo impressions below. Thanks, Johannes, for teaching us!

 

 

Why We Teach The Way We Do

Today, a colleague confided in me:

“Dirk, if I were a student, I wouldn’t attend your classes. I never liked to speak up and would rather cram for an exam at the end of the semester rather than open my mouth in class.”

Well, that was quite the bummer. However:

We teach to make the most of your time: To achieve the highest possible learning in the shortest amount of time. Your (student) time is precious, and so is ours. For that, we encourage active class participation. To make this clear, parts of your grades depend on that participation.

Look at the following increasing steps of class engagement:

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Upcoming Class: Test-Driven Development with Johannes Link (One Time Only!)

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a small-scale process for software development which embraces design, programming and unit testing in a unified approach. TDD is one of the key practices of Agile development. This seminar teaches FAU students and personnel basic and advanced techniques for practicing TDD and discusses the usefulness of TDD in different contexts. Friends of the Open Source Research Group are also invited. Teaching language is German unless requested otherwise.

Topics covered are:

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