[socal-piggies] Proposed next meeting: Thu July 21st @ Evite

[Jathan McCollum]

The easier to digest the better! You'd be surprised how time consuming
coding in a lecture format can be, especially when others are
following along, sometimes even simple code can just get confusing.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:41 AM, John Schofield <jms at schof.org> wrote:
> Not 100% sure I can make the Evite meeting, but I'll do it for sure at
> the next Westside meeting (and about 75% likely at Evite).
>
> Not sure which project I should pick, if that's what you're asking.
> Probably a Mac/Windows/Linux software update engine, but...picking
> something that's a manageable size will be critical. Don't want to
> spend an hour giving people a tour through the code before people get
> to jump in.
>
> Any suggestions / guidelines from anyone? Anyone done this sort of
> thing before? Do an entire program (so that we can make changes and
> watch them run) or just focus on a particular function or small set of
> functions (to keep it easy-to-digest)?
>
>
> Schof
>
>
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> John Mark Schofield
> http://schof.org
> jms at schof.org
> (310) 751-0022
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, I think that's a great idea. Reminds me of the 'Teach me XYZ'
>> sessions that Steve Holden holds at PyCon, where he's in front of the
>> audience and the audience teaches him about Twisted, or Web Testing,
>> or other tools/projects/topics.
>>
>> What is you code/project about?
>>
>> Grig
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:45 AM, John Schofield <jms at schof.org> wrote:
>>> Given the proclivity people seem to have for commenting on others'
>>> code -- I'm wondering if a "Pimp my Code" section would be a good use
>>> of all that energy -- the presenter would bring in a program or module
>>> (or snippet) and show it on the projector, and then people could make
>>> suggestions to improve it.
>>>
>>> I'd be willing to be a guinea pig on this. Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Schof
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> John Mark Schofield
>>> http://schof.org
>>> jms at schof.org
>>> (310) 751-0022
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
>>> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> It's time to plan our next meeting. We can host it at Evite and we
>>>> propose the date of Thu. July 21st at 7 PM.
>>>>
>>>> While we're always looking for presenters (so please volunteer!), my
>>>> colleague Warren Runk came up with a really good list of activities we
>>>> could do in the meeting:
>>>>
>>>> - ice breakers (not lame ones)
>>>> - moderated discussions with small group break out sessions (maybe
>>>> present ideas to the list before hand to vote on)
>>>> - algorithm discussions/introductions
>>>> - maybe some light programming exercises (laptops or whiteboard)
>>>> - allocated time dedicated to beginners (they can ask questions, we
>>>> can provide useful experiences and things to avoid)
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to vote on one of these topics, we could go ahead
>>>> and do it at our next meeting.
>>>>
>>>> I would also like to stress a couple of things based on feedback from
>>>> various Piggies:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Our meeting is *very* open to beginners and we do not aim for a
>>>> super-high technical threshold; we encourage beginners to attend, ask
>>>> questions and propose topics of interest to them. Danny Greenfeld had
>>>> a really good idea related to this, in that more advanced users can do
>>>> a real service to the community by presenting on their patterns of
>>>> usage of basic Python modules such as sets, or exception handling,
>>>> etc. So...please propose some of these topics!
>>>>
>>>> 2) While we try to have lots of fun during the meetings, I would like
>>>> to ask everybody to try to keep the comments (and sometimes heckling)
>>>> addressed to presenters to a polite minimum. We can (and indeed do)
>>>> have lively discussions on the respective topic *after* the presenter
>>>> has finished.
>>>>
>>>> Other comments and suggestions regarding the structure of our meeting
>>>> are very welcome!
>>>>
>>>> If you do plan on going to the July 21st meeting, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Grig
>>>>
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