Hello all,
Today was a lot of fun and in an attempt to keep the tempo up, we ended up planning a few more hands-on events. These are the rough activities that came up during the discussion:
The goal is to dig deep into various applications, libraries, frameworks or languages to learn from it. We might learn different patterns to solve certain problems or just get more comfortable with the code itself in order to start contributing to it.
Whatever the goal may be, reading someone else’s code is always educational; if nothing else then just to know how not to write it :)
Frequency: once every two weeks
Please give suggestions as to what code you would like to read and discuss as part of this group.
This is such an old idea, that probably nobody knows when it started. But it’s really useful to help us get through those great books that everybody seems to start but nobody really completes.
Which books do you want to read?
We had some suggestions come up:
Which one of these you would like to read? Do you have any other suggestion?
Frequency: once every two weeks
What’s your take on all this?
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Hello Karan,
The book reading club achieves two things:
We will be picking the most popular book amongst the participants and decide on the chapters that we want to complete by a certain date. On that day we come together to discuss our understanding, experiences as well as doubts. We decide on which chapters to complete before the next meeting and rinse repeat.
Does that make sense? Thoughts?
+1 for PoEAA
Swanand, Thanks for suggestion. So lets settle on computation book?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Aakash Dharmadhikari <aak...@gmail.com> wrote:
Swanand, that sounds like a really nice book. I would love to read it.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Swanand Pagnis <swanand...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am going to go out on a limb, and suggest against PoEAA, TDD, and recommend "Understanding Computation" by Tom Stuart. It's a great book that will give you far more insights into programming than anything else. The entire book uses Ruby for examples, and Tom maintains a fluid narrative throughout.
Read a chapter or two to decide for yourself. Or, listen to this talk by him: Tom Stuart - Refactoring Ruby with MonadsMy two pennies.
I change my vote after watching that YouTube video. If you haven't watched it yet, please do that now.+1 for Understanding Computation@swanand: You have earned yourself a beerLooks like we have the winner as this book gets the maximum votes,We are meeting on the coming Wednesday. Chapter 1 is just an introduction to Ruby and Chapter 2 covers fundamentals to what a program is. We can probably finish till the second chapter by the time we meet.That way we also get a sense of what the book feels like and how easy/difficult it is to power through it.Thoughts?
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Chandan Kumar <chanda...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for Computation Book.@Swanand: Thanks for the suggestion.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Bhushan Lodha <bhusha...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in for computation book. Swanand, thanks for the suggestion.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Prathamesh Sonpatki <cson...@gmail.com> wrote:
Swanand, Thanks for suggestion. So lets settle on computation book?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Aakash Dharmadhikari <aak...@gmail.com> wrote:
Swanand, that sounds like a really nice book. I would love to read it.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Swanand Pagnis <swanand...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am going to go out on a limb, and suggest against PoEAA, TDD, and recommend "Understanding Computation" by Tom Stuart. It's a great book that will give you far more insights into programming than anything else. The entire book uses Ruby for examples, and Tom maintains a fluid narrative throughout.
Read a chapter or two to decide for yourself. Or, listen to this talk by him: Tom Stuart - Refactoring Ruby with Monads
My two pennies.
--Chandan Kumar
For mumbai folks, can we meet for some time via handouts ?
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