Coding Dojos 2017 (Motto SOLID principles) #19
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Hello all, how is it looking for 2017? |
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Hi, all! Hope you started 2017 successfully! I'd like to organize a coding dojo in February. I might ask you for some support setting the "marketing" side of the dojo up. |
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for January - if there are no volunteers - maybe @dertseha? Has been a long time... |
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I'll see if the 23rd of January is available at FRQ. |
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David Tanzer has contacted me with a facilitation idea, I offered him to do the January session; I'm waiting for his reply whether he has time on the 23rd or the 30th. |
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Hi guys, I could do a session in March. |
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Hi bros. I'll take april, july, oktober then.
See you hopefully soon.
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Mesdames et Messieurs, we'd like to volunteer for May, August and November.
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Great idea @dertseha, looking forward to this dojo. I have booked two Wednesdays for February (15th or 22nd) @ LinkResearchTools and would do a doodle to see which performs better. Glad we're filling up the slots for 2017! |
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well then I'd like to take June and September, before everything is full :-) |
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lol. Maybe we go back to running twice a month, esp. in good months like March/April/May and Sept/Oct/Nov and/or running a second Coderetreat in June? |
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@codecop I think, having one session per month (with exceptions) is a decent rhythm. Better to be sorry for waiting four weeks than having dojos with next to no participants. From what I saw, overcrowding is not the most urging problem ATM. |
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Next week's dojo is a new record, in terms of participants. I'd like to keep the monthly rhythm until we figure out what a winning strategy is to keep both participants and facilitators engaged. I guess last month's dojo was... interesting with only two (?) participants. |
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What do you think about having a questionnaire at the end of the dojo on Monday? I'd like to know what makes the 30 people tick in filling up all places in two days. |
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Maybe many people have new year resolutions ;-) Interesting, so many new names. Also strong participation from FRQ and the few veterans. On Meetup 30 ppl might be 20 or even only 10 in the end so I am curious how many will show up. Also I planned to drop by if time allows, which I still plan to... |
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@xbojch So what about February? Starting a Doodle now to figure out whether it should be next week or the week after is too late I believe. Pick one, and pick it fast if it's going to be next week :) |
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Yes, I agree @dertseha. After discussing it internally and to attract most of our team, we’ve settled on the 22nd of February.
So we’ll skip the doodle for dates. I’m looking at katas that would be interesting. Did you try OCP katas before? If yes, how did it work out?
I’ll pick a kata and theme in the next 2 days and then start the announcements, hopefully knowing the content of the coding dojo will attract more participants.
Thanks for the reminder Christian!
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I don't think we did any explicit OCP kata before. GIve it a go, I'd be interested! Thinking about it, we could run a SOLID theme as well. Each principle handled at least once in 2017. Idea out in the open. |
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I like the idea. I have been looking for ideas for the March session anyway. Maybe a single responsibility refactoring kata, similar to the tennis kata? Something to code might be nicer on the other hand.... Any ideas? |
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@xbojch Love the idea of an OCP-kata and @dertseha making a solid focus this year. Do you know pre-canned exercises/katas regarding those principles? |
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@xbojch the Racing Car Katas, https://github.com/lucaminudel/TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples/tree/master/TDDMicroExercises/Java all have OCP and DIP violations which need to be refactored. In a way they are OCP katas. Explaining the kata takes some time. Maybe 2 of them can be done in one evening. If you decide to use them I can provide more pointers for facilitator.
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Thanks, Peter!
I'll prepare the doodle and SwK announcements during the weekend. I'll also try out the katas you suggested and we can do a hangout later.
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Prepared the SwK and Doodle. Can I send it out via SwK or are there some rules about who sends it? |
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@xbojch thank you for creating the entries! People are free to send them out themselves :) There is a send-mail button on SWK for the event, at the top. One minor addition: If you could please add to the doodle the columns "Topic", "Venue", "Speaker", "Other". Then ask in the description the people to check what motivates them to come. For "Other", people hopefully leave some comment. |
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Thanks for the info @dertseha, I'll send the invitation as soon as I get the Doodle ready. I'm not entirely convinced, that Doodle is a good match for collecting additional data. It's either free text options or scheduling an event (only dates + times). Here's a test doodle - IMHO it is confusing as it displays the choices as equivalent options. What do you think about it? http://doodle.com/poll/k65vuy3rkuuxmswx |
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Using a test-only doodle should do the trick, good idea with setting up a test. |
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Ok, let’s give it a try. Will send out the invitations in the morning.
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SwK and Doodle now published. Please share. |
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Hi, just to report on my first coding dojo. In the end 11 people participated (4 internal). For 3 it was the first coding dojo. It was interesting, and I also received some feedback how to improve. Participants really like to know the topic (theme) up front to decide if it's something for them. I could say it's confirmed by the Doodle, where most people checked that the reason they will participate is the Topic. About the exercises, I could work on being more clear with requirements, perhaps even showing a pseudocode example. Some participants pointed out, that it would be nice if they could see the final solution and discuss design ideas. Perhaps a topic for a future dojo? All in all we were successful and I'm looking forward to organizing the next one. |
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@xbojch sounds great. Pls send a pull request with your slides/revealjs/pdf to this repository. Thank you and your employer for hosting the dojo. |
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Thank you, @paulroho ! |
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@paulroho you still want to repeat the November attempt? If so, it's best to send out the info today (Thursday). |
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Also, I see that no-one volunteered for December. Do we want to run one? |
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I volunteered for December. We‘re moving to a new office this week, so I want to see it first before setting a fixed date. But it will be in the first half of December. Open for topic suggestions, or I‘ll pick one SOLID.
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@dertseha thanks for pinging me. Here's the buzz:
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Hold on, my dearest! I totally oversaw that @codecop already sent a port yesterday! |
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@paulroho I'm lost a bit - where's the Java port? Your repository hasn't changed in 2 months, and the SWK post doesn't have any further link. |
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Sorry for the confusion. @codecop has provided his Java-version here: https://bitbucket.org/pkofler/tictactoe-mistakeproof-java |
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Hi, all! What do you think? Or should we rather have the next one in January? |
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Why not - I could join on both dates. |
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Either date is very close to the holidays for most I guess - at least what I hear from my surroundings that they are occupied so much these days. Yet still, if you don't publish, you'll never know ;) Even for myself, there's only a slight chance I would be able to make it on 20th. There's another year-in-review event at the company after which I could come - unless this event takes very long and/or will be relocated to a Christmas market. A development I so far didn't interpret from the invitation. Can't tell. (My answer reminds me of something I like to avoid myself - see picture) |
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As far as I can tell now, I'd join on either day. Maybe we can relocate to a Christmas market after doing the coding stuff... |
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Published it on:
Please share with love! I'll send the SWK e-mail in the morning. Idea for Christmas market afterwards: U1 -> Karlsplatz. Did any of you do a dojo with this kata https://github.com/sandromancuso/Bank-kata before? I would do it either from scratch or with some part implemented and with a refactoring and new feature. Open for ideas or insights. |
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Afair we did the bank kata with @codecop at willhaben years ago. But I do not remember what learning were. |
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We did the Bank OCR which is a different kata than Sandro's, So new kata, yeah let's go |
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@xbojch sure thing, we can manage. |
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I'm on sick leave until Friday. @dertseha here are the slides for today https://rawgit.com/xbojch/sessions/4f39cf2c1b36b81c2364eeeec7b3031bead34590/session20171220/index.html Marian Gablovsky will be there as host today. Please find him in Top-2 if you come early. Thanks for jumping in! |
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Thank you very much @dertseha. I've heard it was successful. Wish you all happy holidays and looking forward to the next year! |
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Another year completed! Also, no rest for the wicked, 2018 is covered here: #36 |
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