Many people have a “book of the month” club, and that’s fine. But I want to do something different, and promote a certain, relatively underdeveloped, skill in the process. If there is enough interest, I’ll make this a monthly thing.

Introducing the Code of the Month

The basic idea of the code of the month is to highlight an open source software program. Download it, use it, and read the code. If you’re motivated enough, write an extension to it or fix a bug or two, but the key is to get in there and read the code. Here are a few tips for reading code.

If you blog and want to share your thoughts on the code, just link back to this post. Then everyone can read through your perspective on the code. If you don’t blog or don’t want to write anything up, that’s fine too.

The Benefits

• Practice reading other people’s code (unless I’m highlighting your program)
• Exposure to different ways of programming
• Improvements to your own code!

This Month’s Code – NUnit!

In keeping with the spirit of Test Driven Development, is NUnit of course! In particular, check out the Beta release for version 2.2. There are some new attributes like Category and Explicit, support for Mono, a “light” mock object framework, and new command line switches. Plenty of new things to check out, as well as see Test Driven Development in action!