2009/9/21 Nicholas Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org>: > Hi, > > First off, apologies for the very late notice of this meet-up... date > clashes between those who had already volunteered their services meant we'd > be organising the thing with a week's notice. > > What? A meetup to discuss, plan and sort out the next London Python code > dojo (happening on the 15th October 2009, 6:30pm) > > Where? http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/72/728/George/Temple (the > usual pub) > > When? Tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd September) at 7pm > > Why? Work out the baby-steps needed to get the thing going next time, define > the appropriate tests, format changes to improve the flow. > > See you there...!
Not sure if I can make it, but here is what I'd suggest as potential starting points: Who is the audience and what do we want to practice? The group last time seemed split between people who had quite a lot of working experience of python and those with less. We should make sure we know the split at the start of the dojo. I'd avoid gui, make the input/output text only, possibly provide the skeleton for the IO but with a failing test. IE just have the main loop. The other option is to make it a Django app, using a model and a simple table/form based submission. Given I am not playing the game When I start a new game Then the game should say “Welcome to tictactoe” And have the game say You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike Have the first few failing tests something around start or end to try drive the model As a player Given an empty board When I choose a square Then that square has a O in We can start naive (random computer placement) and improve the algorithm to try win (try to place on a axis next to own piece, identify 2 in a row), might want to seed the initial driver or co-pilot (not both). Maybe if there is time or half way try and throw in a new requirement (10x10 board 5 in a row wins) I've seen tictactoe been used effectively to teach legacy code vs tested code refactorings at Agile2009. http://code.google.com/p/ugly-and-clean-tictactoe/source/browse/trunk/ugly-and-clean-tictactoe Paul _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
