Compiled Learning Objectives

At the end of the sprint, you should be able to do the following things. Make sure to check you can do them all, and if not, go back and keep practicing until you can.

Caching (Prep)

• Identify and explain how web browsers benefit from caching
• Demonstrate how caching can trade memory for CPU

Cache Invalidation (Prep)

• Identify and explain staleness risks with caching, and the difficulty of invalidation

Memoisation (Prep)

• Define memoisation

Pre-computing (Prep)

• Identify a pre-computation which will improve the complexity of an algorithm

Trade-offs (Prep)

• Give examples of trading off memory for CPU
• Give examples of choosing where work is done in system design
• Optimise a system design to minimise the cost of operations

User Needs and Acceptance Criteria Workshop (Day Plan)

• Identify user personas.
• Define user needs for different user personas.
• Identify the benefits of using Who/What/Why in user stories.
• Write acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then format.
• Identify the benefits of using Given/When/Then in acceptance criteria.

Clean Code Workshop (Day Plan)

• Identify properties which make code easier to read and modify.
• Compare the cleanliness of code.