Coding dojos anyone?

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Roland Turner

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May 19, 2011, 5:30:38 AM5/19/11
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All,

I have been thinking for a while about holding/participating in coding dojos[1]. HSG would seem an obvious place to do this, choice of language(s) is an open question, at this point I'm simply wondering whether there is anyone else interested in participating in periodic (monthly?) events of this type.

Any takers?

- Raz

1: http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WhatIsCodingDojo

Jason Ong

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May 19, 2011, 5:49:53 AM5/19/11
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How about doing that in a zen-like environment? Sharpen your blade and have mastery over it.



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Senthil Kumaran

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May 19, 2011, 6:12:58 AM5/19/11
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 05:49:53PM +0800, Jason Ong wrote:
> How about doing that in a zen-like environment? Sharpen your blade and have
> mastery over it.
>
> http://www.aerislifestyle.com/images/Daigo.jpg

If we can get such a space!.

Roland Turner, +1 for the dojo idea.


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Roland Turner

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May 19, 2011, 6:37:43 AM5/19/11
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Ah yes, HSG needs to be upgraded to have Japanese restaurant decor :-)

Thanks for the interest, anybody else?

- Raz




Jason Ong

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May 19, 2011, 6:41:33 AM5/19/11
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How about cleaning up the space,  arrange the tables, dim the lights and light some candles? Heh.

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Martin

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May 19, 2011, 6:52:48 AM5/19/11
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That sounds super awesome!
Will the coders work as a team or each code for himself?
Will there be an audience (there should be, right?)

I'm lousy at solving complicated code problems but I might consider to take part. As a coder or as an audience, both sounds great to me.

Best regards,
Martin

Ivan

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May 19, 2011, 6:59:50 AM5/19/11
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> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Roland Turner <roland...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I have been thinking for a while about holding/participating in coding
>> dojos[1].
>> ...
>> Any takers?

+1

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jason Ong <velv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.aerislifestyle.com/images/Daigo.jpg

coding seiza-style for 2+h? good luck...

cheers,
Ivan

PS: I think folks from agile meetup did a few (java?) coding dojos

Max Cantor

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May 19, 2011, 7:25:32 AM5/19/11
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we do something like this at SingFP every month. if you want a basic intro to Haskell, Lisp/Clojure, Scala, *ML/F# let us know.

Max

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Roland Turner

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May 19, 2011, 11:02:39 AM5/19/11
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The format is:
  • 1 * sensei (co-ordinator/facilitator)
  • n - 1 others who rotate through pilot (typing), co-pilot (critiquing; i.e. other half of programming pair) and the rest (kibbitzing :-))
So, one pair programming at a time (their screen projected onto the wall), the "audience" offers advice, but also rotates through the hot seats, say every 10 minutes.

It's generally aimed at tactical coding concerns, so the problems tend to be fairly easy. The point of the exercise is mastery of the language/environment, not the solution of a complex problem.

- Raz


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Roland Turner

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May 19, 2011, 11:03:14 AM5/19/11
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Cool! What is SingFP?

- Raz



Martin Bähr

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May 19, 2011, 11:18:51 AM5/19/11
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:03:14PM +0800, Roland Turner wrote:
> > we do something like this at SingFP every month. if you want a basic intro
> > to Haskell, Lisp/Clojure, Scala, *ML/F# let us know.
> Cool! What is SingFP?

look at the list of languages, and only one interpretation comes up.
hint: it is not singing about FrontPage ;-)

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Martin

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May 19, 2011, 11:36:51 AM5/19/11
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Format sounds awesome. When will this happen?

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Max Cantor

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May 19, 2011, 12:31:31 PM5/19/11
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singapore functional programming users group.

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