On 23/06/2010 09:33, Alex Francis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Lyle<[email protected]> wrote: > >> ...what are your thoughts and ideas? >> > Main thing: I think we could use a bit more structure for the real > event. It felt a little aimless and that could be worse with a larger > group, especially if some of those attending are more out of their > depth than we were. We should have a deal more time for the real > event, so that shouldn't be a problem. I think the simplest way of > providing structure is to have a list of small coding challenges to > pick one from and implement in Perl 6; obviously the emphasis is on > the Perl 6 not the coding challenge, so they'll need to be fairly > simple. I'll see if I can come up with some examples. We could borrow > some things from CodeKata if we want some tougher examples. >
Maybe small challenges that individuals in each group can work on/research, then an overall challenge for the group that involves code from all of the small ones? http://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples/ Is likely worth a thorough look through. > As far as my experience of trying to pick up some Perl 6 goes, it was > an interesting combination of a lot of excitement at some very > powerful features, plus some puzzlement at a few obscure features that > I can't see myself ever using. Working from the synopses was OK, but > not ideal since they're more reference material than tutorial. Nige > has the code we came up with, one thing I do remember from it was that > there seemed to be a lot of different ways to do things (surprise > surprise) but no clear indication of which was more correct or what > the tradeoffs were (if any). In some cases we took a guess at correct > syntax until it worked. Partly this will be down to not having the > right mental model yet for the things we were working with. > I think lots of questions being raised from looking at just one part of Perl 6 is perfect. It's exactly what the workshop is aiming to achieve. Please should go home with lots of questions and want to answer them by using Perl 6 more. Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
