[python-uk] The London Python Dojo is this Thursday

xtian xtian at babbageclunk.com
Fri Jul 12 21:53:14 CEST 2013


I like the sound of this - Scrapheap Challenge style. You're right, it would take a bit more organisation though.

On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alistair Broomhead <alistair.broomhead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something that may may not work (I guess it would take a fair amount of organisation) once a challenge has been picked, we ask people to volunteer as team leaders, they get a git repo set up and write tests, but their main role is to advise their team and give them a nudge on things which are stopping them from progressing. This would mean that each team has an 'expert', but I guess it would also mean people who were willing to take this role would have to bring a laptop off their own -an issue for me as I don't own one...
> 
> On 12 Jul 2013 14:19, "Javier Llopis" <javier at correo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >> Another person could simply say: mmm... interesting but... not for my
>> >> level. And stop coming. Do you really want this?
>> >
>> > When all's said and done, if someone doesn't think it's for them, then
>> > it's not for them. We can try to be as accommodating as possible, but
>> > you can't please all the people all the time.
>> >
>> 
>> ...And in this case, I would rather try to keep the expert coders in
>> instead of the newbies. Better be challenged than bored.
>> 
>> Just my 2p
>> 
>> J
>> 
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