Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
Paul, Thanks for the feedback! By shared learning outcome I'm assuming you mean a specific skill or item of knowledge that has been explained and practiced/exercised during the dojo? If so, then the honest answer is no, we don't have specific learning outcomes defined. I suspect this is

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Foord
Nicholas Tollervey wrote: [snip...] Finally, http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ has always struck me as a fun thing to do in a group with the simple aim of expanding one's knowledge of Python's capabilities and libraries. Perhaps something fun for a Xmas "special"..? This sounds like a great

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:29:33PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: > I've looked through the skeletal code on github and that looks like a > good start. The lines in the test code which look like this: assert state == [ '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', ] are somewhat making the assumpt

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Foord
Jon Ribbens wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:29:33PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote: I've looked through the skeletal code on github and that looks like a good start. The lines in the test code which look like this: assert state == [ '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', ] are

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
inline Jon Ribbens wrote: Also I'd like to put in a strong vote for part of the spec being that the game will allow human v human, human v computer, or computer v computer games (by entering "number of players: zero" ;-) ) We talked about this during the dojo planning meetup last week. We all

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
again! Jonathan Hartley wrote: inline Jon Ribbens wrote: Also I'd like to put in a strong vote for part of the spec being that the game will allow human v human, human v computer, or computer v computer games (by entering "number of players: zero" ;-) ) We talked about this during the dojo

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Nicholas Tollervey
Jon, It's fantastic to see people engaged already but I think it best we keep hold of our thoughts until Dojo - that way all participants start the Dojo without having to read email exchanges here and elsewhere. As the comments in the code suggest, everything is open to change and we've o

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:55:37PM +0100, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: > It's fantastic to see people engaged already but I think it best we keep > hold of our thoughts until Dojo - that way all participants start the > Dojo without having to read email exchanges here and elsewhere. Yes, I am tryin

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 73, Issue 19

2009-09-28 Thread greg nwosu
During the dojo its most likely that you will encounter an implementation detail that does not agree with you. In this situation (as in most implementation scenarios) you'll have to weigh up the costs of refactoring the code vs trudging along with it , given a very tight timeframe and a nagging des

Re: [python-uk] 2nd London Python Dojo - 18:30 15 October 2009 at Fry-IT

2009-09-28 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Sep/28/2009, Jon Ribbens wrote: > Also I'd like to put in a strong vote for part of the spec being that > the game will allow human v human, human v computer, or computer v > computer games (by entering "number of players: zero" ;-) ) Yes Dr. Falken! Sadly I will not be able to attend o