1st Session - 1st December
Ivan Sanchez
It's time to get things started! Our first session is already
scheduled [1] and we have a few things to decide:
1) The challenge: I suggest something really simple like poker or
minesweeper mainly because our time is very limited (we're starting at
18:15 and have to finish before 20:00). If you have some other
exciting and simple problem now it's time to share it.
2) The format: since probably no one is prepared to do a Kata, it
seems like a Randori would be better. I still don't know how many
people are attending, but in the best case (a lot of people) we can
try a fishbowl [2]
3) What do we need for the session: I can bring a laptop, they have
a projector and water. Anything else? Maybe a flipchart? Food? You
tell me.
4) The next sessions: is someone interested in help me organise
them? The next one is going to be on mid-January so you have time to
think about it.
Hope to see you all there!
[1] http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/first-coding-dojo --
please register
[2] http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2007/session/TDDRandori.html
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Ivan Sanchez
http://www.isanchez.net
Danilo Sato
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Ivan Sanchez <s4n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> It's time to get things started! Our first session is already
> scheduled [1] and we have a few things to decide:
>
> 1) The challenge: I suggest something really simple like poker or
> minesweeper mainly because our time is very limited (we're starting at
> 18:15 and have to finish before 20:00). If you have some other
> exciting and simple problem now it's time to share it.
I like Minesweeper. Bank OCR and Roman Numerals (really simple) are
other suggestions.
Regardless of the time we have, there's no need to rush to finish it,
so I don't think that would be a problem
> 2) The format: since probably no one is prepared to do a Kata, it
> seems like a Randori would be better. I still don't know how many
> people are attending, but in the best case (a lot of people) we can
> try a fishbowl [2]
I can prepare a Kata for one of those problems. I don't mind trying a
Randori as well but, depending on the level of familiarity with TDD in
the audience, maybe a Kata might be better. Do we need to decide which
language as well?
> 3) What do we need for the session: I can bring a laptop, they have
> a projector and water. Anything else? Maybe a flipchart? Food? You
> tell me.
Do they have a whiteboard available? If so, then there's no need for a
flipchart. If not, it's always good to have somewhere to write. We
could also use with some red/yellow post-its for the retrospective at
the end.
> 4) The next sessions: is someone interested in help me organise
> them? The next one is going to be on mid-January so you have time to
> think about it.
I'll be probably be around in january, so I can help you organizing it as well.
> Hope to see you all there!
Me too!
Cheers,
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Danilo Sato
www.dtsato.com
Squirrel
attending myself.
Could we use codingdojo.co.uk in any useful way for publicity or
records of the dojo? (We bought the domain name to be sure no one else
would, and put up a simple wiki, but haven't done anything else with
it yet.)
Danilo Sato
In São Paulo we started using the Wiki to share our session reports
and I think it's really useful (we had a special role of a 'scribe'
that rotated between the participants and would be someone responsible
for writing the session report and publishing it). After a while they
preferred to move to a blog and to write in Portuguese :-)
But it's great to have a place where we can share our experiences with
those who couldn't attend the sessions, but are interested in what
we're doing.
Another thing that they are doing now that's very cool is using a
github project to keep the source code available to everyone. The
other cool thing about git is that we can make local commits between a
red bar and a green bar, and push to the server only at the end of the
session. What do you guys think about it?
Cheers,
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Danilo Sato
www.dtsato.com
Ivan Sanchez
About this particular session, we still have to define the problem and
the language. I never tried the Bank OCR so that would be my choice,
using ruby preferentially.
Also, as far as I know pretty much everyone here has done some TDD
before, so I'd suggest a randori (or kata to get started then
randori).
It's time for the rest of the list get involved: what problem/language
do you prefer? Kata, randori or mixed approach?
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Ivan Sanchez
http://www.isanchez.net
waldo
I'll be coming along too. Although I had to look-up randori, kata and
fishbowl... so things should be interesting / confusing for me.
Ben
Ivan Sanchez
http://skillsmatter.com/location-details/agile-scrum/225/1
People can still register in the event page:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/first-coding-dojo
See you guys tomorrow!
Ivan
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http://www.isanchez.net
Ivan Sanchez
I'll probably be there around 18:00 so feel free to arrive a little
bit earlier as well.
Danilo Sato
I'm really sorry about today! I was planning to leave the office at
5:30 but we were caught up on a last minute bug that we had to fix for
tomorrow's showcase :-(
Although I couldn't make it to the session, I want to know how it
went. Anyone would mind sharing? :-)
THanks and hope to see you all next time!
Danilo
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Danilo Sato
www.dtsato.com
Ivan Sanchez
I was hoping you would show up to help us with your Ruby skills! But
don't worry, you'll have another chance next time!
Ivan
Danilo Sato
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Danilo Sato
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