kata

You may want to take a look at Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata.

Now our karate dojo needs to take out an ad to let us know it is kata week?

In return, the chef follows the path to satori by sticking to his chosen kata, the way.

Also, the whole 'kata' movement, where you write and rewrite relatively brief solutions to problems until you master them.

In martial arts, a kata is about micro optimizations as you attempt to match the unachievable idea of perfection of the form - they are the core of martial arts.

Prime factor kata is often used as an introductory example of TDD, yet it is clearly impractical and produces garbage code.

Lean Education and Toyota Kata are also related, so you may find good info when searching for those keywords as well.

Do two steps on a three step kata in front on your own time, and then a 2/3 hour interview to talk about what you wrote, and add the last piece to the kata.

Interestingly I've only seen this mistake in this direction, I have not seen any koans mislabeled as kata.

Git and trello bots are very easy to write -- almost kata level scope.

I usually pick a simple coding problem, like something that'd be an intro computer science problem or code kata.

The Gilded Rose kata illustrates the dangers of procedural code excellently.

Some people will look at a sufficiently interesting "Code Kata" type problem as a fun challenge and others will turn up their noses.

Apart from all that, calling someone a "Code Ninja" or "Samurai Developer", or doing programming "Kata" is laughable.

Kata practicing is an exercise in explosive power over long period (several minutes), thus strength endurance training.