Llewellyn Falco talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, life with intellectual parents, pair programming, a scientific mind, and shipping software
Llewellyn Falco is an Agile Technical Coach specializing in Legacy Code and Test Driven Development. He is the creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ), co-founder of TeachingKidsPrograming ( www.teachingkidsprogramming.org ) and a Pluralsight author.
Chapters:
- - Dave Introduces the show and Llewellyn Falco
- - Llewellyn's diverse set of points of origin
- - Llewellyn's affinity for and methods of teaching - especially test driven development with children
- - Llewellyn's unique approach of pair programming - "strong-style pairing"
- - The origin of strong-style pairing
- - Llewellyn's definition of value
- - The balance of success - within you and outside of you
- - How Llewellyn got started in software
- - The things that "light Llewellyn up"
- - The appeal of Test-Driven Development
- - Llewellyn's story of failure - building the wrong thing and a lack of explicit agreements
- - Llewellyn's greatest success - adding unanticipated functionality without difficulty - "fit's like it was designed for it"
- - How Llewellyn stays current with what he needs to know
- - Llewellyn's book recommendation
- - Llewellyn's prediction for the future of software
- - Llewellyn's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Llewellyn
Resources:
- Llewellyn's Blog
- Approval Tests
- Woody Zuill on Developer On Fire
- Llewellyn’s strong-style pairing
- Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction - Steve McConnell
- The Dance - Tony Arata
- Jonathan Cutrell
- IBM - What makes you special - sliced bread
- Llewellyn on YouTube
Llewellyn's book (and video and podcast) recommendations:
Llewellyn's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Invest in yourself - do something that scares yourself
- Work with other people - don't work by yourself
- Ship it