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Food Truck Gameshow

2:14 with Craig Dennis

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?

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    >> In this episode, 0:04
    we'll be taking a field trip to downtown Portland's food court scene. 0:05
    We'll be playing an impromptu game show with real-life developers to see how 0:09
    well they can think on their toes. 0:13
    Play along at home and see if you would have won a burrito. 0:14
    >> All right, so welcome to the treehouse pop-up game show. 0:17
    We are about to let you win a burrito. 0:21
    How's that sound? 0:23
    >> I love a burrito. 0:24
    >> Awesome. 0:25
    So what is your name? 0:25
    >> Marco Nicholosky >> Max Genese. 0:26
    >> I'm Kevin Lighthouse. 0:29
    >> All right. So, the first question. 0:30
    If you have a date in, actually what's your programming language of choice? 0:33
    >> Ruby. >> C#. 0:37
    >> I am a Java developer. 0:39
    >> Java developer, excellent. 0:41
    I teach Java at treehouse, that's great. 0:42
    In Ruby, if you have a date, and you wanted to turn it into a string, 0:45
    you wanted to show it on a page, what would you do? 0:49
    >> If I wanted to turn it into a string? 0:51
    Well in Ruby you could use the two underscore s. 0:53
    >> [LAUGH] Date time to string? 0:57
    >> Would it be two string? 1:00
    >> There it is, that's great. 1:02
    All right second question, let's say that we wanted to take that date and 1:04
    just print the day of the week, is there a way to do that? 1:08
    Is there a way to pass a format string to turn that date into, just make it say, 1:10
    like Wednesday? 1:15
    >> Yeah. 1:18
    >> What would you do to make that happen? 1:19
    >> I'd read the docs. 1:22
    >> That is the answer, yes, number two, that was perfect, you did that perfectly. 1:23
    >> I don't remember it. 1:28
    >> So what would you do, what would you do in that case? 1:30
    >> I would Google it. 1:32
    >> That is the answer, correct >> I would look at the Java docs. 1:33
    >> That's the answer. 1:38
    That's the answer. 1:39
    Looking at documentation is the answer. 1:40
    Ding, ding, ding. 1:42
    So, third question. 1:43
    How often do you look at documentation? 1:44
    >> Pretty much any time I'm using something that I don't recognize. 1:48
    >> Every 30 minutes or so. 1:51
    >> Every time I do anything. 1:53
    >> That is also the answer, you did it, three questions, nailed it. 1:55
    Thank you so much for being on the show. 1:59
    Thanks for watching the treehouse show. 2:00
    To get in touch with the show, reach out to me on Twitter or 2:02
    hit us up in the treehouse community. 2:05
    See ya next time. 2:06
    [MUSIC] 2:07

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