String Calculator Kata : My first screencast trilogy

This is my attempt at Roy Osherove's popular String Calculator Katas. 


TDD StringCalculator Kata - Part1 from Gishu Pillai on Vimeo.



The Vimeo Album containing all 3 parts.

I'm using C# (VS2010+Resharper), NUnit and an IDE extension called Beacons 
(the wiki might be a bit behind the downloads tab :))


The videos look best when you have the HD option turned on and Scaling (hover on the video - top-right) turned off.
intermediate practitioners
For best results : download the videos and the subtitles. Use your media player with audio turned off and subtitles enabled at 2-4X. 
I don't do this (ever) so wasn't equipped with the proper audio gear (and coupled with the fact that I do not have an internet voice and can't code and speak at the same time, the audio is passable.)

beginners
Practice it a couple of times before watching. You'll get more out of it.


What I learned from it:

• I need to practice more :) 
• 2 modes of learning in a Kata 
• muscle memory - goal: Speed. 
• exploration - goal: Possible solutions. Take different choices and see how it ends up.
• Automated refactoring (e.g. Resharper for C#) rules. Knowing your IDE and keyboard shortcuts goes a long way w.r.t. productivity
• Streamline all routine work and bind them to keyboard shortcuts - like building, running tests, reusable code snippets/templates, etc

For people looking for screencasting tools on windows, I'd recommend

1. BB Flashback Express - the free edition for screencasting. Export to AVI using ffdshow worked great for me.
2. ShowOff - for highlighting keystrokes and chords. Keyboard Jedi wasn't too great with 64bit & keyboard chords (before my patience ran out).