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Re: [PLUG] Re: [agilephilly] Fwd: [XP] Coding Dojo
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On Friday 14 April 2006 6:45 pm, John Sladek wrote:
> It this specific to any programming language?
Not yet. Whoever shows up and helps get the thing going will probably have the
most impact into the form it takes.
I probably should have forwarded the Agile Philly Yahoo group address, since
that's what we're currently using for online discussion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agilephilly/
I also added a couple of Wiki entries on the SourceXtreme Wiki referencing
some other links around the concepts:
http://wiki.sourcextreme.org/index.php/Coding_Dojo
Cheers,
Jason Nocks
Bliki:
http://wiki.sourcextreme.org/index.php/Bliki:Jason
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Nocks" <nocksj@sourcextreme.com>
> To: <agilephilly@yahoogroups.com>; "Philadelphia Linux User's Group
> Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 4:59 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] Re: [agilephilly] Fwd: [XP] Coding Dojo
>
>
> The Agile Philly group has been discussing getting a Coding Dojo started,
> or perhaps just a refactoring fest. Also, we've been discussing using an
> Open Source project. I thought I'd cross-post to PLUG in case anyone is
> interested.
>
> Places to host such an activity would be great. Is this something that the
> folks at Unisys might be interested in?
>
> Cheers,
> Jason Nocks
>
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 10:20 pm, D. André Dhondt wrote:
> > This sounds like an interesting way to discuss agile programming in a
> > future meeting!
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Laurent Bossavit <laurent@bossavit.com>
> > Date: Apr 4, 2006 3:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [XP] Coding Dojo
> > To: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com
> >
> > Greg,
> >
> > > First, I obviously modeled this off Laurent's activity. However, not
> > > having actually participated, I'm doing my best to wing it..
> >
> > Hey ! That's the way *we* started out. ;)
> >
> > > I figured that would be a good group size so that everyone could
> > > follow along (even if they were working as autonomous pairs).
> >
> > In the Paris Dojo we have only one coding pair, working on a PC
> > connected to a beamer so the rest of the room can follow along. (We
> > tried having several pairs, the first session, and found it wasn't
> > working.)
> >
> > The basic routine is "Kata": one of the group has done their homework
> > on a given coding challenge, and their task in the Dojo is to
> > demonstrate, starting from scratch, their way of solving the
> > challenge.
> >
> > The two ground rules is that they have to stick to TDD baby steps,
> > and each step must make clear sense to everyone in the room. The
> > audience is supposed to interrupt *only* if they don't understand
> > what's going on. (Debates on personal preferences, as in "Why are you
> > leaving the opening brace at the end of the line", are strongly
> > discouraged.)
> >
> > This routine scales up to large groups.
> >
> > The other routine is "Randori", where the coding pair has a small (5
> > or 7 minute) timebox to complete one or two tests, then the driver
> > rotates back to the audience, the copilot becomes driver, and one of
> > the audience steps up to be copilot.
> >
> > Randori is obviously best suited to smaller groups.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -[Laurent]-
> > The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can
> > withstand our best efforts to examine it. -- Daniel C. Dennett
>
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