Coffee?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Apart from the fact that “Java” is a kind of coffee, and the fact that programmers all have red blue green brown blood, how would a coffee‑infused example differ from an ordinary one?

[Jeremy Kubica]

The coffee infused examples means that a large number of the real world analogies in the book ended up focusing on the tasks of making or getting coffee.  This initially happened naturally.  As I was trying to think of example, I kept thinking “This could be used to select coffee.” I hoped they would be relatable to a lot of programmers.

[Michael Krimgen]

Just wondering, is there any relation between testing and the book?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Probably not, but it attracts traffic to this forum.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Jeremy Kubica wrote:. . . the tasks of making or getting coffee. . . .

I know somebody who is a teacher and who gave his class an exercise in following instructions. It turned out to comprise making him a cup of coffee

[Jeremy Kubica]

Michael Krimgen wrote:Just wondering, is there any relation between testing and the book?

It is true that the book is not about testing. However I can say that I did spend a lot of time improving how I tested data structures as I wrote the book.