In this workshop we’ll give you a quick introduction into Code Katas. After that we’ll show a short demo, a so called Code Kata Bunkai, which means practicing a kata in silence while a partner is explaining it to the audience.

Then we’ll offer several tasks in different levels of difficulty to start you off practicing a kata. We’ll also offer you different constraints like “Only one assertion per test!” or “Only two instance variables per object!”. After practicing we’ll gather experience in a retrospective.

Code Katas can be performed on your own, in pairs or groups. The programming language can be chosen by the attendees. There will be lots of room for questions and answers. The workshop leaders will always be around to help.

You as an attendee should bring your own notebook.

The workshop takes 180 min. Alternatively we could shorten the workshop to 90 min, but that would give us less time for practicing the katas, the workshop’s most insightful and fun part.