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Uncle Bob's Agile Principles Patterns Practices & Planning

Uncle Bob returns to Skills Matter in October to deliver his new five-day course on the key Agile principles for OO development. This is the only scheduled date in 2013.

During this five-day course, Uncle Bob introduces the Principles, Patterns and Practices of professional Agile Object-Oriented development in Java and Agile Planning and Estimating. You will learn through a balanced combination of lectures and hands-on exercises that reinforce the concepts and practices. You'll work with a single web-based example program and its associated unit tests. Throughout the course you will continuously improve that program by successively applying the principles, practices and patterns being learnt.

Next course date: October 21st - October 25th
Learn more & book online: here!

Functional Programming eXchange 2013

Join us March 15th to learn and share common challenges and ideas across the different languages of the functional programming paradigm! Representing Scala, F#, Clojure, Haskell are:

• Simon Peyton Jones takes you on an adventure with types
• The latest in F# with Don Syme
• What's David Pollak been up to developing Lift 3.0?
• Robert Rees contrasts Clojure & Scala
• ...and there's Robert Pickering, Nic Ferrier, Adam Granicz, Alain Frisch, and Paul Dale!

Interested? Join our Functional Programming eXchange on MARCH 15th 2013!

Register now to get your hands on the early bird price!

Uncle Bob's Test Driven Development and Refactoring Workshop

This is a two-day Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring workshop in which you will learn the principles and practices as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. This course alternates between lecture and exercise so that you can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of these fundamental topics.

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Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organisation to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way? In this three-day Clean Code Workshop you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

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Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development Workshop

This hands-on, two-day workshop immerses you deeply in Test Driven Development. You'll be coding straight from the start, interrupted by very short presentations to explain the practices and puts things into a wider perspective. It is based on the very latest tools, current knowledge and ideas from the community. This workshop was authored by Gojko Adzic and is delivered by Damjan Vujnovic.

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