CodeRetreat Leuven

Come and join your fellow peers to have a good time practicing writing code to get better at writing code in your real jobs.

We’ll start off with koffiekoeken and form pairs to do the Game of Life Code Kata.
After 45 minutes we’ll delete all our code and talk about new insights you’ve gained.
Then we’ll pair up with new people and do it all over again but with new constraints applied, like not using conditional expressions, or committing code on green within 2 minutes.

At some point we’ll break for lunch and we’ll figure something out for dinner too.

## What to bring?

This event is very hands-on and it’s always better to come prepared.
Bring your laptop (and peripherals if this helps you code better).
Make sure you’ve installed GIT, and some programming languages you like.
Here are some kickstarting code repositories you can already clone to see if they are usable for you on your machine:
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-kotlin
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-java17
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-elm
https://github.com/TimmyGilissen/coderetreat-dotnetcore

## Schedule

08:30 Welcome with koffiekoeken
09:00 Kick-off, facilitated by Vincent Verhoeven and Tim Schraepen
09:30 First kata
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 More kata’s
17:30 Closing

## Is this event for me?

If one or more of these apply to you, I’d say you’ll have a good time and learn something new:

• You’re a student and want to learn from people that code for a living
• You want to improve your coding skills
• You want to learn how to improve your AI context/harness engineering via software crafting skills
• You’ve never done Test Driven Development before
• You’re experienced and want to pair with somebody outside of your team
• You’re very experienced and want to help your peers grow their coding skills

## Practical Info

Our host of the day is Unlockd and along with sponsoring the food and drinks, they’ve lent their office space (desks, monitors, meeting rooms, …) to help you become a better software developer.

Unlockd is an agency specialised in building (mobile) apps for any screen. They focus on collaboration with clients who appreciate creating value through small iterations. They do this for mobile, web, desktop and embedded devices. In small teams they focus on app development but include all involved 'edges' like back-end/middle layers, embedded/BLE interfaces, design, dev ops, app store publishing and optimisation, production monitoring, etc.
They've build apps for Hubo, Standaard Uitgeverij (Strips), Lava (fruite & vegetable auctions), Classified Cycling and many more.