in the past few weeks I have heard about a phenomenon called 'code-kata'. When I get it right, it means coding an exercise again and again. What is its point? Does it improve your abillity to design better software? If yes, why does it do so?
I collected a bunch of references here: http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2009/08/code-kata-resources.html
The most important of these is http://codekata.pragprog.com/