Refactoring
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Legacy Reporting Script for a Renewable-Energy Startup
Read the existing script and identify 5-7 distinct responsibilities tangled together. Refactor into 3 layers: data loaders (CSV, REST API), transformers (pure functions over row…
- Abstraction
- Higher Order Functions
- Refactoring
Programming Abstractions - StrategyBeginnerNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Tangled Java Pricing Engine With Design Patterns
Start from a provided Java 21 codebase with the legacy PricingEngine class, 38 example fixtures (input cart, expected price), and one failing test demonstrating a bug from last …
- Python Or Javascript
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID Principles to a Notifications Subsystem
Read Notifier and the last 6 months of incidents touching it. Write a 4-page design document mapping each of the 5 SOLID principles to a specific change in the subsystem (Single…
- Solid Principles
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Introduce XP Practices to a Legacy E-Commerce Codebase
Run a 6-week intervention with the 7-person checkout team. Week 1: baseline (current test coverage, defect-escape rate, story cycle time). Weeks 2-5: introduce TDD on all new co…
- Extreme Programming
- Test Driven Development
- Ai Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - CodeBeginnerNew
Characterization Tests for an Untested Pricing Engine
Drive the pricing engine with around 800 representative input vectors generated from anonymized production quotes (provided). For each vector, capture the current output as the …
- Characterization Tests
- Approval Testing
- Legacy Code
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID to a Java Reporting Service for a Renewable Energy Startup
Receive the legacy ReportService, 4 sample report templates (Daily Output, Monthly P&L, Annual Availability, Curtailment), and 22 fixtures (input dataset, expected report). Refa…
- Python Or Javascript
- Solid Principles
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeBeginnerNew
Replace Raw Pointers with Smart Pointers in a Game-Engine Module
Audit the 18k-line module for raw-pointer ownership patterns (owning, borrowing, shared). Refactor in 4 phases: (1) introduce unique_ptr for clearly-owning sites, (2) shared_ptr…
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
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