Global Day of Code Retreat (a bit early) by Code Craftsman Saturdays

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Code Craftsman Saturdays alternates each month between a regular Code Retreat format (http://coderetreat.org/about) workshop and a deep-dive format. In October we'll be practicing the classic Corey-Haines and Patrick Wilson-Welsh inspired Coderetreat, a little earlier than the rest of the globe. For more on that, see my blog post.

We will have breakfast together starting by 8:30 and get to know one another. Around 9 I introduce the challenge and get people started. You and your chosen pair will wrestle with the problem for 45 minutes, and then we'll put laptops down and do a brief retrospective. The retrospectives allow all to share what they learned and to maybe choose something to do differently next time. Then we do it again.

What's going on here is learning, and practice. One of the best values is learning from one another, and pair programming with people you would otherwise never have the opportunity to work with. You get exposed to different ways of thinking, different habits, and different skills, roughly 6 times in the course of one day. We do it every month, so we've gotten pretty good at it.

Each month, attendees range all over the map: students, seasoned pros, researchers, front-end devs, microservices pros, and everything in-between. Comfort levels are found across many languages: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, C++, Ruby, even the occasional Swift, Elixir, or Scala enthusiast.

The primary focus of a code retreat is craftsmanship; learning and practicing our skills until they become great habits.