Day 9: Beat That Redux

Code Review

On days when projects are due, we will review each others' code in groups of 2 or 3 during class. If there is a group of 3, the triplet will do individual code review together so that everyone gets to review someone else's code, then split into 2 groups for pairing.

Individual Review

0) Push Your Own Code

Refer to the push section for the commands needed for this.

1) Clone Partner's Code

You'll be paired up so that you can exchange the links for your repos via your community channel. Remember that the forked repo is the one that is under your GitHub account, not Rocket Academy's. If you have forked the repo but haven't pushed your latest code to GitHub, take a moment now to git push. Let your partner know you're updating the repo. Run a git clone <REPO_URL> <NEW_FOLDER_NAME> to get a copy of your partner's code.

Note: You need to rename the folder when you clone if you already have a folder named after the repo where you're making the clone.

2) Run Partner's Code

Open the code in the browser and test it. What does it do? If you're not sure what it does look inside script.js to see.

3) Read Partner's Code

Read the code:

1. How does it work?

2. Does it have any obvious errors?

3. Does it implement something that you were trying to do?

4. Does it implement a feature that you haven't started yet? How does the code work?

Code Review Reflection Questions

While you are reading, note down the answers to the following questions: No need to be comprehensive, but pick out parts of the code you found notable.

1. Note a line of code (or multiple lines) that you think works well. This could be the logic of the code, or just a well-named variable. Explain why it works well.

2. Note a line of code (or multiple lines) that you thought was unclear or you can't figure out. How would you explain why is it unclear or hard to figure out?

3. Note a line of code (or multiple lines) where you found a bug. Why is it a bug? Do you have a solution?

4) Play with Partner's Code

It may be helpful to make changes to the code to help you understand it better. Write some console.log that would help you figure out what the code does. Break the code in a certain way to prove how it works or doesn't work.

5) Discuss

Once both partners are done with #1-4, discuss what you saw. Read out and review together the answers to the 3 questions you wrote down from above.

Peer Review

You'll be pair programming on one person's project at a time. The goal is to get working versions for each person. The driver will be the person who is *not* working on their own code.

Once done with one person's code, send the code to your pair (it's their project) via a community channel code snippet. Switch to work on the other person's code.

Note: If you are working on your partner's code you can't push to their repo because GitHub repos are read-only to non-owners by default.

If you both have working versions, implement a new feature in one of the projects together.

More Comfortable

Implement More Comfortable exercises in the project writeup. Once done, push your code to update your pull request in GitHub.

Reference Solution

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