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

[René Dudfield]

That could work with a theme... the goal doesn't have to be a game?   It's
more inventing the problem as you go?

Unrelated thought for a good exercise... new requirements are introduced at
half time... and then 5 minutes before the end... like real life.
On Jul 15, 2013 2:05 PM, "Jonathan Hartley" <tartley at tartley.com> wrote:

>  I don't think this helps, but it's a model I think is otherwise widely
> applicable, so I'll spread the seed:
>
> One model I've seen work well on game programming challenges is that
> self-selected leaders will each pitch their project vision, and then
> participants will decide which leader's team they would like to join.
> Leaders may also prefer other pitches to their own, and decide to revoke or
> merge pitches (generally, only one leader in a merged pitch will retain the
> 'leader' tag)
>
> This has advantages that:
>
> * self-selected leaders are vetted by the crowd. If they are revealed,
> during their pitch, to be blustering buffoons, then people can vote with
> their feet.
>
> * everyone gets to work with the project/leadership that they choose, so
> in theory happiness is maximised (for everyone apart from the 'failed'
> project leaders.)
>
> * projects which are popular are allocated correspondingly generous
> personpower.
>
> The disadvantages are:
>
> * It isn't remotely relevant to our current dojo format
>
> * It doesn't give even distribution of team sizes
>
>     Jonathan
>
>
>
> On 12/07/13 20:53, xtian wrote:
>
> 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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