Code Katas

A Code Kata is an exercise in writing code preferably in test driven way, which you do repeat periodically.

There are very good examples of them around the Internet. 

It generally takes 15 to 20 minutes to finish for the first time, after a few cycles duration goes down by almost by half .

Every time I repeat , I find new shortcuts in my development environment and a few things to do differently.

Here are some of my favorites.

http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/code_kata_one_s.html

http://codingkata.org/katas/unit/towers-hanoi

I prefer Java but intend to write some of them in Scala Ruby and Groovy.