Today I plan to improve the Sprite object to handle animation. I am optimistic about this.

Today I'll try to gin up a little object containing the mask, the rectangle, and the position, to see if it makes things better. I am hopeful.

Design Thinking: There's this notion of "encapsulation" that I've heard about. And "cohesion"?

What general notions might we draw from the past few days' work? What do you see that I do not?

We'll review the saucer code and improve it.

Saucer is still too complicated. I had an idea yesterday at close of session: a helper class!

Drilling down was useful, I think, but let's take a look around for new code signs. We wind up working on names. Again.

I think I see something that would improve the InvaderGroup logic. Let's find out.

Let's have a look at the new code for invaders and edges, see what it's telling us, and do something about those hundred-plus calls. Bear bites man. Man survives.

I promised to throw this spike away and do it over. Can we talk about this? Includes words like 'folderol' and 'bugaboo'.

Let's try a spike that may lead to an improved version of our invader fleet logic. I promise to throw it away.

A very strange session. Two hours of reading and thinking, one very simple change adding an enum, no major improvement. Wasted? Or valuable? I'm not sure yet.

I propose to identify and discuss the things I see in code, what they make me think, and perhaps a bit about what I might do about them. This does not go as I expected.

I've run into a small issue with the Sounds object. I think I have a solid idea for it.

I want to muse today about Small Steps and how they affect me. I owe GeePaw Hill a pat on his cute little head for helping me focus on them.

Working on sound, we encounter an interesting refactoring, done in a very zen-like fashion. Small steps, add duplication until it resolves. This was really quite nice.

I have a somewhat more expressive way to, well, express what we did yesterday. Do we prefer it? Let's find out. Short, and sweet.

I propose to remove some if statements today. Why might we do that? Do we like the result? Readers may disagree. I might even disagree with myself.

I'm pleased that Invaders has been implemented without framework changes. And I see what I think is a desirable change. I learn otherwise.

I want to talk today about Programming by Intention, a notion I learned from Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham.