October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
3h 50m
English
Content preview from Programming Beyond Practices
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Chapter 1. Using Prototypes to Explore Project Ideas
Imagine that you work for an agency that helps clients navigate the early stages of product design and project planning.
No matter what problem space you are working in, the first step is always to get ideas out of a client’s head and into the world as quickly as you possibly can. Conversations and wireframes can be useful for finding a starting point, but exploratory programming soon follows because words and pictures alone can only take you so far.
By getting working software into the mix early in the process, product design becomes an interactive collaboration. Fast feedback loops allow stumbling blocks to be quickly identified and dealt with before they can burn up too much time and energy in the later (and more expensive) stages of development.
There are many moving parts in even the most simple software systems, so it pays to set them in motion early on to discover how they interact with one another. In some ways every project is different, but in this sense every project is the same.
This week, you will work with your pairing partner Samara to develop a functional prototype of a music video recommendations system. The initial feature set does not need to be perfectly polished; it just needs to be useful enough to collect feedback from people who may find the product interesting.
In this chapter…
You will learn how exploratory programming techniques can be used to build and ship a meaningful proof of concept for a product ...
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