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ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Random Pair Programming

Nov 3

Tue 6:00 PM

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Estimated attendance: 37 people attended.
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Who organized?
Dave Giunta, Patrick Turley, and Ray Hightower

This meeting will focus on hands-on pair programming. Ginny Hendry led a great random pairing session in Elmhurst, so she's bringing her act downtown! People of every Ruby level are welcome to come and participate. Please come prepared with the following: a laptop with Ruby (http://ruby-lang.org...) and RSpec (http://rspec.info...) installed, a basic working knowledge of the Ruby language, a general knowledge of Conway's Game of Life (see Wikipedia).

Even if you've never programmed in Ruby, you're welcome to come and observe. You'll still have fun!

Please use your real name when you RSVP for downtown ChicagoRuby meetings. Reason: We are required to give a list of all attendees to the security desk prior to the meeting. If the name on your ID doesn't the match the name on the RSVP list, then Aon security will not let you in the building. Sorry for the inconvenience, but those are the rules of the Aon Building.

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Who attended?

37 attendees
- Bob Korbus
  
  “ Really great. Learned concepts of paired programming and test-driven development. Bad pizza. ”
- Justin Love
  
  “ Most groups keep working past the official stop time. One experienced developer volunteered to guide some of the newer Rubyists through basic testing practice. ”
- Ginny Hendry
  
  “ Most people stayed late because they were having so much fun programming so I think it was a success! I'd like to continue doing these pairing sessions regularly (in addition to the normal monthly meetings with presentations, that is). Next time with a different project, though. One change we should keep is make pairing less random to make sure we don't pair two beginners. We can categorize people as beginner, expert willing to help, and standard, then pair the experts with the beginners. ”
- Peter Fitzgibbons
  
  “ Thanks Ginny for a great Dojo session! ”
- Roman Zabicki
  
  “ had great insights pairing on the game of life. Arrived at a much simpler solution than I expected. learned about ruby idioms to boot. ”
- John Barnicle
  
  “ This was my first ChicagoRuby meetup, and I learned quite a bit. I will be sure to attend more regularly based on tonight's experience. ”
- Daniel Peters
  
  “ Far and away the best meetup I've been to yet. I am a better programmer for it and feel more confident to find and accomplish work because of it. I thank you and thought works a thousand times over for the opportunity to come and learn with such an interesting group of people once a month. And I ”
- Ethan Gunderson
- Chris Sepic
- Alan Bailey
- Monty Ksycki
- Matt Puchlerz
- Patrick Turley
- Erik Peterson
- Naqeeb Memon
- Mischa Fierer
- Annas Andy Maleh
- Matt Elmer
- Constantin Gavrilescu
- Drew Olson
- Rachael Folk
- matthew
- Lance Ennen
- Ray Hightower
- Dave Giunta
- Matthew Boyd
- Josh Mejia
- Sachihiko Shirasaka
- Melanio Reyes
- Alden Arzaga
- Michael L
- Anjali Shenoy
- Michael Norton
- David Rosholt
- Jeremiah McAllister
- Joseph Leddy
- Jonny McAllister