Should Test-Driven Development be in the beginners tutorial?

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 03:25:17 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:47:52PM -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> I created a document stating the plan, goals, and purpose of the
> Squeak Documentation Team:
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5870

I really want to introduce beginners to (and learn myself) how
to write good unit tests, then develop a  class that conforms to
those unit tests inside the debugger. I have heard that that
capability is one of the best things about Smalltalk, and I know
that unit tests are a *very* good thing to use.

Should I expose a Squeak beginner to this topic early on?
or should that be the topic of a separate tutorial?

I do not know if my tutorial will target novice programmers or
not.

-- 
Matthew Fulmer



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