First session at SPA - three hours on the concept of code debt. I was a little nervous about the time - but I need not have. The time flew by, as the presenters (Peter Marks and David Harvey) did a great job. The exercise they led off with set the tone perfectly: We split into two groups, with each group off into pairts. Each group got a set of Javascript (with issues and tests) to fix. One group had well factored, easy to read code, the one I was in had poorly factored, very hard to read code.

If that didn't express the idea of code debt, nothing would :) From there we covered a lot of ground, and had a few exercises to consider things that cause code debt. As is often the case for a SPA session, the outputs ended up as sticky notes on a tack board:

It was a great way to start the week - I'm looking forward to the rest of it. Here are two shots of the presenters:

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