Surviving Legacy Code
7-8 October 2019, 9 am to 5 pm
Why should you attend this course?
You should attend this course if you have code that seems impossible to change, code that you feel really uncomfortable changing, or you want to avoid creating code like that in the future. J. B.’s advice transcends business domains and programming languages. Moreover, you get to find out how he thinks through the tough choices as well as improve the design with (relative) grace and ease.
After learning a technique, it’s your turn to try it out for yourself. All you need is a working development environment for your favorite programming language and to install git. (Strictly speaking, you don’t even need to do that, but you probably should.) If you get stuck, then J. B. helps you get moving again. If something seems strange, then J. B. helps you make sense of it–or maybe he agrees that it’s strange and you should try something else.
J. B. Rainsberger helps software companies better satisfy their customers and the business that they support. He travels the world sharing what he’s learned about programming, managing his workload, and designing his lifestyle. He spends a lot of his professional time helping programmers do good work with less stress. Not only does he consult with and train for companies, he also provides personalized one-on-one coaching and online training
Prerequisites
The practice code base is available in (at least) bash, C#, C++, C, COBOL, CoffeeScript, D, F#, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Smalltalk, Swift and VB6, so you should be able to find at least one language in which you’ll feel comfortable practising.
You don’t need to know any fancy frameworks. (That’s probably part of what got you into trouble in the first place.) You don’t even need testing libraries, although you really should probably find one and install it. You only need some patience and energy.
Schedule
Be prepared: on day 1, we focus on practising in J. B.’s code, but on day 2, you’ll focus on practising on *your* code. If you can’t bring your code with you (privacy, NDAs, network security–J. B. understands), then keep practising on J. B.’s code or perhaps find some other code out there in the world that you don’t yet know how to change. There’s always a code base to practise on.
Date & Venue
7-8 October 2019, 9 am -5 pm
TechTalk Office Vienna
Leonard-Bernstein-Straße 10
1220 Wien
Price
EUR 1300 Early Bird until 6 September 2019
EUR 1400 Regular
Price excl. VAT.
For additional information please contact trainings@techtalk.at