February 9th, 2009Coding Dojo London: Next session is February 12th
Since last December, my friend Ivan Sanchez invited me to help him organize a Coding Dojo in London, at Skills Matter. We’ve only had a few sessions so far, but it’s been great fun going to regular Dojo sessions again, since I left Brazil 1 year ago. In the last session, I did a prepared Kata in Ruby, using RSpec and Ivan did a great job of summarizing some of the lessons learned in his blog.
Our next session will be next Thursday, February 12th and you have to subscribe on the Skills Matter website if you want to attend. To join our discussions of which problems to tackle, which languages to use, join our mailing list. We’re also publishing the source code from the sessions on Github, and some of the sessions are being published as podcasts/videos on the Skills Matter website. I hope to see some of you on Thursday!
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February 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Hi Danilo,
Nice to read about more people conducting coding dojo’s. What have been your experiences while conducting these dojo’s? Do people find these activities conducive to learning? Have you come across any roadblocks in trying to convey concepts to the participants in the dojo’s.
It will be nice if you can blog your experiences while conducting coding dojo’s.
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Regards
Parag
February 12th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Hi Parag,
Both here in London, as in São Paulo, my experiences with the Dojo have been really good. It’s a great environment to try out new ideas, learn new languages, and make good (geek) friends :-)
I never came into a roadblock that we couldn’t overcome. Most of the time, the concepts are not thought as in a usual class (someone explaining, and others listening), but it’s more like a group discussion. People end up learning some things without noticing.
I’ve published some of my experiences with the Dojo in a paper presented last year at Agile 2008, and I know this year Hugo is proposing another session on the subject. I will also try to keep posting about it here in my blog, so stay around!
Thanks,
Danilo
February 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
HI Danilo,
Thanks for your reply. A will watch your blog for more coding dojo related posts.
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Regards
Parag
April 5th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Hi Danilo,
I saw you’re going to be at XP2009 running a workshop. I’m also running a workshop there, and I’m looking for volunteers to perform prepared katas at it. Are you or anyone else from your dojo interested? There is a call for participation here http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KataWorkshop
Cheers,
Emily