Coding Study: ASCII Art Faces
Channel: Noah Gibbs
Date: 2020-05-06

An example coding study, as described in Mastering Software Technique.

0:00 Bumper
0:03 Who am I? What's a Coding Study?
0:30 What is Today's Coding Study?
3:11 Timer starts, designing starts
3:46 Writing code starts
7:35 First run - start debugging
7:55 First visible face
10:00 Start writing emotions
14:12 Start debugging emotions
18:30 First emotion ("surprised") works, start on animation
22:26 Start debugging animation
23:12 Basic animation works, start polishing and expanding
25:00 Start on multi-character facial features
30:59 Start debugging multi-char features
31:11 I wrongly think multi-char features are working
33:22 Multi-char features are *actually* working
35:41 Add more emotions
46:00 End of coding study, start wrap-up

More About Coding Studies:

* Conscious Coding Practice (RubyConf talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33fAzjOTaDE
* Mastering Software Technique: https://software-technique.com
* What You Learn by Repeating Exercises: https://codefol.io/posts/what-you-learn-by-repeating-exercises/
* You Learn the Most with Throwaway Prototypes: https://codefol.io/posts/you-learn-the-most-with-throwaway-prototypes/