Thursday meeting?

[James Cooper]

Hi there,

Did we decide on a meeting topic for this week?   If no one has time to prep anything we could do another hands on meeting (coding katas or something).  

The topic I proposed (hosting providers survey) would require a bit more prep.

-- James

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James Cooper
http://blog.bitmechanic.com/

[Jonathan Mark]

hi,
thanks for the mail!'
We had not decided... I went away for the weekend instead. :-)
I was wondering if there was time to do the hosting providers thing.

Sounds like a good idea... what are coding katas?

J

[James Cooper]

coding katas are little programming puzzles that are intended to be somewhat easy to solve, but have many correct answers.  there's a bunch of sites that have lists of them ready for you to use.   wikipedia has a good overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata_(programming)

and this site has a list of katas we could use:

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

so that would be a no prep sort of meeting.  the hosting provider topic would require a bit more prep (we need to signup for accounts, and presumably try pushing a simple app to each one pre-meeting..)

-- James

[Mike Orr]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, James Cooper <ja...@bitmechanic.com> wrote:
> coding katas are little programming puzzles that are intended to be somewhat
> easy to solve, but have many correct answers.  there's a bunch of sites that
> have lists of them ready for you to use.   wikipedia has a good overview:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata_(programming)
>
> and this site has a list of katas we could use:
>
> http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataCatalogue

KataYahtzee or something would be interesting.

Perhaps spend a couple minutes seeing if there are any particular
Python skills people want to practice, and then look for a related
kata. Or if none come up, it would be an exercise in deciding which
programming techniques best fit the chosen problem.

Who wants to run the meeting?

--
Mike Orr <slugg...@gmail.com>

[Jonathan Mark]

I have sent mail to announce the meeting!
I am happy to run it, or someone else can if they like.
cheers,

Jonathan

[James Cooper]

Thanks for sending that email Jonathan.  Yeah, I'm happy to have you run the meeting.  

see you thursday

-- James