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8-year-olds should test my code

Another example for the category playing and asking questions:

I had played with … for two weeks and hadn’t made it crash once. Brian brought the whole thing down in three commands.
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If only I could get a room filled with 8-year-olds to test my code.

Read Michael’s whole story here.

BTW Michael: if the mountain will not come to the prophet …
Grab your laptop with the test software and go to the next playground. I am sure any child - no matter what age - will be interested (not only because after eating ice cream typing with clammy/dirty fingers on someone elses keyboard is fun ). While doing this I would also involve mothers, grandparents and babysitters.

Author: Erkan Yilmaz (2007-07-29)