November 3, 2009 6:00 PM - 38 attended
ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Random Pair Programming
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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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Joseph Leddy
Had a great time teaching about Pair Programming, BDD, Rspec, Ruby & OO with some guys who wanted to learn.
Posted November 4, 2009 at 11:45 AM
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Justin LoveAssistant OrganizerMost groups keep working past the official stop time. One experienced developer volunteered to guide some of the newer Rubyists through basic testing practice.
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Roman Zabickihad great insights pairing on the game of life. Arrived at a much simpler solution than I expected. learned about ruby idioms to boot.
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Ginny HendryAssistant OrganizerMost 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.
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Daniel PetersFar 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
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Michael John BarnicleThis was my first ChicagoRuby meetup, and I learned quite a bit. I will be sure to attend more regularly based on tonight's experience.
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The session in Elmhurst was very enjoyable! Sadly i will be out of town or i'd be coming to this one as well.