[SML 7987] Re: Coding Dojo in Kyoto ?

[Takahumi Saikawa]

Dear Serge,

I am certainly interested in that.  What is the possible date?

Takafumi Saikawa


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Serge Stinckwich
<serge.stinckwich ＠ gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> i will stay in Kyoto until December 24th,
>
> If some of you are interested, i could organize a Coding Dojo before i leave.
>
> What is a coding Dojo ?
>
> #CodingDojo session was first invented in Paris in 2004 by the XP
> (eXtreme Programming) community. The aim of these sessions is to
> enhance the coding skills of attendees by doing some very small
> exercices in a funny atmosphere. This is like when you want to
> practice a sport like Judo, you need to practice some basic exercices
> with some judo masters before doing serious business like
> competitions. There is usually two styles of exercices : 1) Kata
> prepared by someone before the session and executed in front of the
> public or Randori, a more exploraty form of a Kata where the whole
> group participates.
>
> More information are available here: http://www.codingdojo.org/
>
> Program of the first session (we will follow the same format than the
> #CodingDojo from Paris):
>
> * 5 min: Select the frequency and the date of the next #CodingDojo
> * 20-30 min: Presentation of what is a #CodingDojo (Serge) - For the
> next session, this time slot will be used to do a retrospective of the
> previous session (what went well, what was interesting, what was frustrating).
> * 10 min: Decide on a topic for this session
> * 40 min: code (Kata or Randori)
> * 5-10 min: Mid-session break to discuss how things are going
> * 40 min: code (Kata or Randori)
>
> The sessions will be completely language agnostic. The programming
> languages chosen at each session will depend of the attendees.
>
> More exotic programming languages like Haskell, Brainfuck, Scala, Lua,
> ... are welcome. This is not really a big deal if not all the people
> don't know the programming language of the session, but you may notice
> that a #CodingDojo is not a good place to learn a new language.  The
> goal is to learn how to better program not to do some proselytism
> (mine language is better than yours). We need people who knows about
> these languages in order to conduct sessions. What is also particulary
> important if you want to organize a Kata or Randori, is to know how to
> write unit tests with these languages.
>
> More information about the philosophy behind a #CodingDojo are available here:
> http://www.slideshare.net/ntoll/organise-a-code-dojo
> and here:
> http://www.slideshare.net/caikesouza/coding-dojo-2879242
>
>
> If there is enough people interested, i need to find a place in Kyoto ;-)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Serge Stinckwich
> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
> Matsuno Laboratory, Kyoto University, Japan (until 12/2011)
> http://www.mechatronics.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
> http://doesnotunderstand.org/