Reinforce yourself: a tale of dog training and test-driven development
summary
Walks through a JavaScript TDD session that builds a dog training simulator from tests: starts with a Dog class, adds name, methods for looking at fingers, and a rewards list, then makes tests drive behavior so a counter threshold of five signals learned touch; neutral consequences do nothing, punishment resets counter by two, and a bug (using && instead of ||) is caught early. Uses red‑green‑refactor, loops and private fields (ECMAScript proposal), and ends with a working MVP and passing tests.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:11SO... HOW TO TRAIN A DOG MIRJAM?
- 7:22Test Driven DEVELOPMENT
- 16:50TAKE LITTLE STEPS
- 30:18SUMMARY
- 31:42GET INTO TDD HOW TO GET STARTED
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