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In this episode, we'll head to downtown Portland, OR food cart scene to do a surprise game show for unsuspecting hungry developers. Would you have won the burrito?
Lessons
- You shouldn't feel like you are cheating by using documentation
- Don't feel like you need to know everything, you are expected to use the documentation and that is okay!
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>> In this episode,
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we'll be taking a field trip to downtown Portland's food court scene.
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We'll be playing an impromptu game show with real-life developers to see how
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well they can think on their toes.
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Play along at home and see if you would have won a burrito.
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>> All right, so welcome to the treehouse pop-up game show.
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We are about to let you win a burrito.
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How's that sound?
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>> I love a burrito.
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>> Awesome.
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So what is your name?
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>> Marco Nicholosky >> Max Genese.
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>> I'm Kevin Lighthouse.
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>> All right. So, the first question.
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If you have a date in, actually what's your programming language of choice?
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>> Ruby. >> C#.
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>> I am a Java developer.
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>> Java developer, excellent.
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I teach Java at treehouse, that's great.
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In Ruby, if you have a date, and you wanted to turn it into a string,
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you wanted to show it on a page, what would you do?
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>> If I wanted to turn it into a string?
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Well in Ruby you could use the two underscore s.
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>> [LAUGH] Date time to string?
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>> Would it be two string?
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>> There it is, that's great.
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All right second question, let's say that we wanted to take that date and
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just print the day of the week, is there a way to do that?
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Is there a way to pass a format string to turn that date into, just make it say,
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like Wednesday?
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>> Yeah.
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>> What would you do to make that happen?
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>> I'd read the docs.
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>> That is the answer, yes, number two, that was perfect, you did that perfectly.
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>> I don't remember it.
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>> So what would you do, what would you do in that case?
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>> I would Google it.
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>> That is the answer, correct >> I would look at the Java docs.
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>> That's the answer.
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That's the answer.
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Looking at documentation is the answer.
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Ding, ding, ding.
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So, third question.
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How often do you look at documentation?
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>> Pretty much any time I'm using something that I don't recognize.
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>> Every 30 minutes or so.
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>> Every time I do anything.
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>> That is also the answer, you did it, three questions, nailed it.
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Thank you so much for being on the show.
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Thanks for watching the treehouse show.
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To get in touch with the show, reach out to me on Twitter or
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hit us up in the treehouse community.
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See ya next time.
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