Shall we play a game? We dive into artificial intelligence and bots, and their battle for the the ultimate prize.

Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Tomislav Ravic, Rishal Hurbans & Hennie Brink from Entelect to talk about the Entelect Challenge and artificial intelligence. The Entelect Challenge is the annual AI vs AI bot challenge. Players can win their share of R200,000 in prize money whilst having fun learning about AI and writing their own bots.

We talk about the goals of the challenge, the history, the tech and the broader impact the team hopes to have with this years challenge, including supporting community events.

Follow the Entelect Challenge online:

- http://challenge.entelect.co.za/

- https://github.com/EntelectChallenge

- https://twitter.com/entelect

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We're having another chat about computing education in the country, this time with a special guest from Durban who is looking to help change the country for the better.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Riaz Moola from HyperionDev and the Computer Science Association of South Africa (CSASA) to talk about teaching programming online. Riaz is an accomplished young man, sporting two international masters degrees and the leadership skills to tackle the thorny issue of improving the education in the country. Almost by accident Riaz developed an online Python training course for students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, which grew into HyperionDev, and also helped set up the CSASA to help educate our educators! HyperionDev is currently helping more than 8000 learners complete various of its community created and supported courses!We discus some of the challenges faced by learners, the (comparatively) huge drop-out rates in Computer Science courses, building a MOOC for the developing world and having backing from Google and the British Computer Association.This episode is shorter than usual, but still packed with an amazing story. Join us as we explore what it takes to give the next generation of developers a fighting chance!Follow Riaz online:- https://twitter.com/HypDev- http://hyperiondev.com/- http://csasa.org.za/Here are some resources mentioned during the show:* UKZN Exchange Program - http://ukzninternational.ukzn.ac.za/International-students/student-exchange-programme/general-info.aspx* HyperionDev - http://hyperiondev.com/* Python - https://www.python.org/* British Computer Society - https://www.bcs.org/* Raspberry PI - https://www.raspberrypi.org* MOOC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course* IEB - http://www.ieb.co.za/* Computer Science Association of South Africa - http://csasa.org.za/* CSASA Meetups - http://www.meetup.com/Computer-Science-Association-of-South-Africa/* Computing at School - https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/Catch some previous related episodes:* 36. Sisonke Rising - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-36-sisonke-rising-with-mandla-magagula-and-theo-bohnen* 9. WeThinkCode - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-09-wethinkcode/s-cnpLBThanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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We're having another chat about computing education in the country, this time with a special guest from Durban who is looking to help change the country for the better.

Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Riaz Moola from HyperionDev and the Computer Science Association of South Africa (CSASA) to talk about teaching programming online. Riaz is an accomplished young man, sporting two international masters degrees and the leadership skills to tackle the thorny issue of improving the education in the country. Almost by accident Riaz developed an online Python training course for students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, which grew into HyperionDev, and also helped set up the CSASA to help educate our educators! HyperionDev is currently helping more than 8000 learners complete various of its community created and supported courses!

We discus some of the challenges faced by learners, the (comparatively) huge drop-out rates in Computer Science courses, building a MOOC for the developing world and having backing from Google and the British Computer Association.

This episode is shorter than usual, but still packed with an amazing story. Join us as we explore what it takes to give the next generation of developers a fighting chance!

Follow Riaz online:

- https://twitter.com/HypDev

- http://hyperiondev.com/

- http://csasa.org.za/

Here are some resources mentioned during the show:

* UKZN Exchange Program - http://ukzninternational.ukzn.ac.za/International-students/student-exchange-programme/general-info.aspx

* HyperionDev - http://hyperiondev.com/

* Python - https://www.python.org/

* British Computer Society - https://www.bcs.org/

* Raspberry PI - https://www.raspberrypi.org

* MOOC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

* IEB - http://www.ieb.co.za/

* Computer Science Association of South Africa - http://csasa.org.za/

* CSASA Meetups - http://www.meetup.com/Computer-Science-Association-of-South-Africa/

* Computing at School - https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/

Catch some previous related episodes:

* 36. Sisonke Rising - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-36-sisonke-rising-with-mandla-magagula-and-theo-bohnen

* 9. WeThinkCode - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-09-wethinkcode/s-cnpLB

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Does infrastructure as code pave the way for repeatable, reliable, consistent and testable infrastructure? Join us as we found out.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Charlene Tshitoka from ThoughtWorks for a talk about infrastructure as code. Charlene has often gravitated towards the infrastructure of software projects, and after having worked on a distributed devops project she was propelled head first into thinking about infrastructure as code and how that can be leveraged to build more reliable infrastructure."Infrastructure as code" is the combination of devops (automation, scaling, consistency) and software development best practices (versioning, modeling, testing, decoupling). Charlene shares from her broad experience of automating and controlling a diverse set of infrastructure with different teams and gives us a lot of good advice on how to think of infrastructure as code, and what the common pitfalls are the teams experience.This show is light on resources, and packed with fantastic insights and lessons!(Apologies for the varying audio quality, we experienced various technical difficulties whilst recording)Follow Charlene Tshitoka online:- https://twitter.com/charlymulHere are some resources mentioned during the show:* Domain Specific Languages (DSL) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language* Chef - https://www.chef.io/* Introduction to Chef Audit Mode - http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2015/04/03/chef-audit-mode-introduction/* Chef audit mode docs - https://docs.chef.io/analytics.html#audit-mode* Chef Test Kitchen - https://docs.chef.io/kitchen.html* Learn Chef - https://learn.chef.io/* Netcat - http://nc110.sourceforge.net/* Ansible - https://www.ansible.com/* Jenkins - https://jenkins.io/* Jenkins Delivery Pipelines - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Delivery+Pipeline+Plugin* Jenkins Job Builder - http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/* Continuous Delivery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery* Packer - https://www.packer.io/* Serverspec - http://serverspec.org/* Snow flake servers - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html* Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/* Blue-green deployments - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html* Docker - https://www.docker.com/* Puppet - https://puppet.com/product/open-source-projects* GO.CD - https://www.go.cd/* Bamboo - https://www.atlassian.com/software/bambooAnd finally our picksKevin:* Unit testing - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html* Test first - http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/testfirst.htmlKenneth:* AfrikaBurn - http://www.afrikaburn.com/Charlene:"Look at your infrastructure as code and give it the same tender love & care as your normal production code."Thanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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Does infrastructure as code pave the way for repeatable, reliable, consistent and testable infrastructure? Join us as we found out.

Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Charlene Tshitoka from ThoughtWorks for a talk about infrastructure as code. Charlene has often gravitated towards the infrastructure of software projects, and after having worked on a distributed devops project she was propelled head first into thinking about infrastructure as code and how that can be leveraged to build more reliable infrastructure.

"Infrastructure as code" is the combination of devops (automation, scaling, consistency) and software development best practices (versioning, modeling, testing, decoupling). Charlene shares from her broad experience of automating and controlling a diverse set of infrastructure with different teams and gives us a lot of good advice on how to think of infrastructure as code, and what the common pitfalls are the teams experience.

This show is light on resources, and packed with fantastic insights and lessons!

(Apologies for the varying audio quality, we experienced various technical difficulties whilst recording)

Follow Charlene Tshitoka online:

- https://twitter.com/charlymul

Here are some resources mentioned during the show:

* Domain Specific Languages (DSL) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language

* Chef - https://www.chef.io/

* Introduction to Chef Audit Mode - http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2015/04/03/chef-audit-mode-introduction/

* Chef audit mode docs - https://docs.chef.io/analytics.html#audit-mode

* Chef Test Kitchen - https://docs.chef.io/kitchen.html

* Learn Chef - https://learn.chef.io/

* Netcat - http://nc110.sourceforge.net/

* Ansible - https://www.ansible.com/

* Jenkins - https://jenkins.io/

* Jenkins Delivery Pipelines - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Delivery+Pipeline+Plugin

* Jenkins Job Builder - http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/

* Continuous Delivery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery

* Packer - https://www.packer.io/

* Serverspec - http://serverspec.org/

* Snow flake servers - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html

* Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/

* Blue-green deployments - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html

* Docker - https://www.docker.com/

* Puppet - https://puppet.com/product/open-source-projects

* GO.CD - https://www.go.cd/

* Bamboo - https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo

And finally our picks

Kevin:

* Unit testing - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

* Test first - http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/testfirst.html

Kenneth:

* AfrikaBurn - http://www.afrikaburn.com/

Charlene:

"Look at your infrastructure as code and give it the same tender love & care as your normal production code."

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Kevin and Len are joined by Simon Stewart to discuss the Swift programming language from Apple. Swift is a modern object oriented programming language intended to supersede Objective-C as the standard language in an Apple developer's toolbox.We talk about some of the quirks in Apple's developer ecosystem before unpacking some of the interesting language features Swift has to offer. We discuss topics such as tuples, pattern matching, generics, error handling and semicolons. There has also been talk about Swift 2.0's Linux compatibility and we discuss some of Simon's R&D into using Swift on the server side as well.Follow Simon online:Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonstewartJSinSA: http://jsinsa.com/Broken Keyboards: http://www.brokenkeyboards.com/Some of Simon's projects includeFind Free Wifi: http://www.findfreewifi.co.za/Find a Book Shop: http://www.findabookshop.co.za/The Swift Programming Language: https://developer.apple.com/swift/And our picks!Simon:John Sculley's book autobiography at Apple Odyssey - http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Pepsi-Journey-Adventure-Future/dp/0060915277Len:Gluu (OAuth2 Server) - https://www.gluu.org/Kevin:Fearless - http://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Undaunted-Ultimate-Sacrifice-Operator/dp/0307730700Thanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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Kevin and Len are joined by Simon Stewart to discuss the Swift programming language from Apple. Swift is a modern object oriented programming language intended to supersede Objective-C as the standard language in an Apple developer's toolbox.

We talk about some of the quirks in Apple's developer ecosystem before unpacking some of the interesting language features Swift has to offer. We discuss topics such as tuples, pattern matching, generics, error handling and semicolons. There has also been talk about Swift 2.0's Linux compatibility and we discuss some of Simon's R&D into using Swift on the server side as well.

Follow Simon online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonstewart

JSinSA: http://jsinsa.com/

Broken Keyboards: http://www.brokenkeyboards.com/

Some of Simon's projects include

Find Free Wifi: http://www.findfreewifi.co.za/

Find a Book Shop: http://www.findabookshop.co.za/

The Swift Programming Language: https://developer.apple.com/swift/

And our picks!

Simon:

John Sculley's book autobiography at Apple Odyssey - http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Pepsi-Journey-Adventure-Future/dp/0060915277

Len:

Gluu (OAuth2 Server) - https://www.gluu.org/

Kevin:

Fearless - http://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Undaunted-Ultimate-Sacrifice-Operator/dp/0307730700

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Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Rebecca Franks to discuss the world of mobile development for Android, Google's developer platform and her recent Google Developer Expert accolade.We take a dive into all things Android, starting with the Play Store and the impact that's made on the app ecosystem before going into the more technical details of building and testing Android apps and the tooling behind it. We speak through some of the nuances of building against Android's APIs and look at alternatives to Java and the ability to interop with native code through Android's NDK.Follow Rebecca online:Twitter: https://twitter.com/riggarooBlog: http://riggaroo.co.za/Android Studio - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.htmlGoogle Play Store - https://play.google.com/storeApple App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/za/genre/ios/id36A/B testing in the Google Play Store - http://bit.ly/1MYZJJxBookdash - Rebecca's App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bookdash.androidAndroid API levels - http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.htmlAndroid Support Repository - http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.htmlBrowserstack - https://www.browserstack.comGenymotion - https://www.genymotion.com/Google test lab - https://developers.google.com/cloud-test-lab/Espresso - https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/docs/espresso/Mockito - http://mockito.org/Android Marshmallow permissions - http://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting.htmlUnderstanding Battery Usage in your Android App - http://riggaroo.co.za/understanding-battery-usage-android-app/IntelliJ - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/Dalvik - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)Kotlin - https://kotlinlang.org/Gradle - http://gradle.org/Xtend - http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/Xtendroid - https://github.com/tobykurien/XtendroidCordova - https://cordova.apache.org/React Native - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/Android NDK - http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndkGoogle Developer Expert - https://developers.google.com/experts/Local Android developer spots:GDG Cape Town - http://www.meetup.com/Google-Developer-Group-Cape-Town-Meetup/GDG Pretoria - https://developers.google.com/groups/chapter/117599647232533838312/GDG Johannesburg - https://developers.google.com/groups/chapter/102185667048205980695/Johannesburg Android Usergroup - http://www.meetup.com/androidug-joburg/PicksKenneth:AfrikaBurn - http://www.afrikaburn.comLen:Durable Queue - https://github.com/Factual/durable-queueRebecca:Android Weekly - http://androidweekly.net/Riggaroo blog - http://riggaroo.co.za/Kevin:Evening of Mastery - http://stream.drivenalliance.com/events/AnEveningOfMastery/Clean Code - http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882The Clean Coder - http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Programmers/dp/0137081073Working Effectively with Legacy Code - http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052Refactoring - http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672The Deep Synergy between Testability and Good Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVZvoFGJTUThanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Rebecca Franks to discuss the world of mobile development for Android, Google's developer platform and her recent Google Developer Expert accolade.

We take a dive into all things Android, starting with the Play Store and the impact that's made on the app ecosystem before going into the more technical details of building and testing Android apps and the tooling behind it. We speak through some of the nuances of building against Android's APIs and look at alternatives to Java and the ability to interop with native code through Android's NDK.

Follow Rebecca online:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/riggaroo

Blog: http://riggaroo.co.za/

Android Studio - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Google Play Store -

https://play.google.com/store

Apple App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/za/genre/ios/id36

A/B testing in the Google Play Store - http://bit.ly/1MYZJJx

Bookdash - Rebecca's App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bookdash.android

Android API levels - http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html

Android Support Repository - http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html

Browserstack - https://www.browserstack.com

Genymotion - https://www.genymotion.com/

Google test lab - https://developers.google.com/cloud-test-lab/

Espresso - https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/docs/espresso/

Mockito - http://mockito.org/

Android Marshmallow permissions - http://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting.html

Understanding Battery Usage in your Android App - http://riggaroo.co.za/understanding-battery-usage-android-app/

IntelliJ - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Dalvik - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)

Kotlin - https://kotlinlang.org/

Gradle - http://gradle.org/

Xtend - http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/

Xtendroid - https://github.com/tobykurien/Xtendroid

Cordova - https://cordova.apache.org/

React Native - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/

Android NDK - http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk

Google Developer Expert - https://developers.google.com/experts/

Local Android developer spots:

GDG Cape Town - http://www.meetup.com/Google-Developer-Group-Cape-Town-Meetup/

GDG Pretoria - https://developers.google.com/groups/chapter/117599647232533838312/

GDG Johannesburg - https://developers.google.com/groups/chapter/102185667048205980695/

Johannesburg Android Usergroup - http://www.meetup.com/androidug-joburg/

Picks

Kenneth:

AfrikaBurn - http://www.afrikaburn.com

Len:

Durable Queue - https://github.com/Factual/durable-queue

Rebecca:

Android Weekly - http://androidweekly.net/

Riggaroo blog - http://riggaroo.co.za/

Kevin:

Evening of Mastery - http://stream.drivenalliance.com/events/AnEveningOfMastery/

Clean Code - http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882

The Clean Coder - http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Programmers/dp/0137081073

Working Effectively with Legacy Code - http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052

Refactoring - http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672

The Deep Synergy between Testability and Good Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVZvoFGJTU

Thanks for listening!

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We tackle the testy topic of automated testing in the life of software projects.Kenneth & Len are joined by Joshua Lewis from nReality (formerly of the JCSE) about the ins and outs of automated testing. We tear through artificial boundaries to unpack the value of testing, as well as potential pitfalls. There are many different testing tools and styles available, and choosing the right approach can be difficult. We even learned about some new terms, and possibly what we've been calling "testing" should be called "checking", who knew? We learned that Kent Beck, the father of TDD, did in fact "rediscover" TDD from earlier authors who used the same principles with punch cards!As is common with talks on testing we explore the many techniques we're aware of, sharing lessons learned and try to settle on some heuristics that you could use in your projects. Which methods are the best? You'll have to listen!Follow Joshua online:- https://twitter.com/joshilewis- https://github.com/joshilewis- https://joshilewis.wordpress.com/- http://www.nreality.com/Here are some resources mentioned during the show:* JCSE at Wits - http://www.jcse.org.za/* Context Driven Testing - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ContextDrivenTesting* Testing and Checking Redefined - http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/856* Test Pyramid - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html* Why does Kent Beck refer to the "rediscovery" of TDD? - http://bit.ly/1StrUSY* Test Driven Development - http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/testfirst.html* Why I do TDD - https://joshilewis.wordpress.com/2015/11/25/why-i-do-tdd/* DStv Digital Media - http://dstvdm.dstv.com/* Selenium Browser Automation - http://www.seleniumhq.org/* Appium - http://appium.io/* Page Object Pattern - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html* Use "qa" CSS namespace - http://csswizardry.com/2015/03/more-transparent-ui-code-with-namespaces/* Sunk cost fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy* lend-to.me - http://lend-to.me* lend-to.me (on GitHub) - https://github.com/joshilewis/lending* lend-to.me eventsourcing experiment - https://github.com/joshilewis/lending/tree/experiment/eventsourcing* lend-to.me API - https://github.com/joshilewis/lending/wiki/API-Reference* Given When Then - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/GivenWhenThen.html* Continuous Integration - http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html* Testing in Production - http://sdtimes.com/testing-in-production-risk-vs-reward/* Ansible - https://www.ansible.com/* Do you smoke test? - https://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/02/22/do-you-smoke-test* Stripe API (support test/live using different keys) - https://stripe.com/docs/api* Consumer-Driven Contracts - http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.html* Swagger - http://swagger.io/And finally our picksKenneth:* pacto - https://github.com/thoughtworks/pactoLen:* miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9x16uIsKAThanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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