CHAPTER 2
GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE
How well you master the Improvement Kata pattern depends to a considerable degree on how you practice. It involves more than just repeating the Starter Kata a large number of times.
This Is About Something Called “Deliberate Practice”
Deliberate practice is practice that is designed to improve performance through a cycle of Doing → Feedback → Adjustment (Figure 2.1). Deliberate practice involves identifying your weaknesses and inventing practice tasks to improve those deficiencies, rather than repeatedly doing what you already know how to do. You get better by correcting your errors. In other words, if you ...
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