2013/7/14 Carles Pina i Estany <car...@pina.cat> > > Hi, > > On Jul/14/2013, andrea crotti wrote: > > > The fact that we are working on complex problems means that everyone > > is rushing and only using techniques that *he/she already knows*, > > because that's the only way to get something done. > > sometimes has been too complex. But sometimes I just downgrade the > "fancy problem" to something easier. > > Last Thursday I could rephrase the problem to: > One have 6 rows. Write two random words in two different rows: > > -row 1: aword > -row 2: > -row 3: someotherword > -row 4: > -row 5: > -row 6: > > Write an across word with the regular expression ^w.o..." (column 2) and > another one "^o.m..." (for column 4). > > For me, part of the exercise sometimes (in my opinion) is to find what > in some literature they call "MVP" :-D (if we go fancy, Minimum Viable > Product I think). >
Which in a way is great and is a very good skill, but then what happens is that every group end up solving a very small subset of the problem and there isn't really much to compare with the others from the design/implementation point of view. I'm not saying it's bad, just saying that it's probably not exactly what a coding dojo normally is.. > > > The other thing I don't like so much is the size of the groups, it's > > hard collaborate in 4/5 people leaving everyone involved, and we waste > > a lot of time understanding how to split the task and how to merge the > > things together. > > it depends on the group (or the mood of the group) and problem. > > As mentioned, similar problems happens in other place. For example at my > tennis table club: mix of levels, some advanced players don't want to > play with beginners. Some other advance players give too MANY > suggestions to beginners and the beginners cannot process all at the > same time and then it's not fun but stressful for them. > > Also, I have to recognize that some months I'm in a more programming > mood, other months less programming mood (due the Dojo being after a > work day). > That's true of course, to me the important thing would be that everyone has fun AND learn something, which could be a new Python idiom, a new algorithm or anything else.. Rushing solutions doesn't really let you do it, and it seems more like work than a dojo to me..
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