Turtles, Treasure & talking about code

by Elliott Hauser

26 Jan 2016

Questions & Answers

  • Should you commit to the gh-pages branch?
  • Should you merge your own pull requests?
  • When do the magical ‘Fixed #XXX’ words work?

Peer Code Review

This is where those of you who have been commenting, reflecting, and pull request titling will win friends because of it. And if the purpose for and audience of these hasn’t quite sunk in yet, reading other people’s code is the best way for it to.

Pair up:

  • Review & merge your partner’s PR (opening issues if there are any)
  • View their live post on the site (merge any PRs they need to do to get the post to display)
  • Fill out the Turtle Peer Review form.]
  • Submit
  • Discuss with your partner
  • Group up & compare notes. Show off the partner you reviewed’s code to the group
  • What did you you learn?
  • Show off a partner’s work in front of class

Functions & Refactoring for Thurs

Read up on functions and then use the power of custom functions to make your previous code more concise!

Elliott Hauser is a PhD Student in information science at UNC Chapel Hill. He's hacking education as one of the cofounders of Trinket.io. Find Elliott Hauser on Twitter, Github, and on the web.