On 23/06/2010 10:39, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > I enjoyed it. I partnered up with Alex and we looked at the OO model > together. We covered quite a bit in a short time: accessors, > inheritance, OO, sigils, self, privacy and a look at some meta^ things. > > I learnt quite a bit from the way Alex approaches learning something > and also testing theories in the code. I think learning from how > others learn is also really valuable - and that comes out of the > exploring phase.
This is something I need to work on, far to used to doing things by myself :/ > I think the idea of having focused coding tasks is a good one - > fortunately TMTOWTDI so when we come back together we'll have some > interesting differences to discuss and learn from. So different groups having the same challenges? It would be interesting to see the differences in their solutions :) > So generally I think the format is a good one: break up and explore -> > come back and report. So I'd suggest: > > 1) break up into pairs and different topics (supported by little > coding problems) > 2) rotate pairs and topics > 3) come back together to discuss > > The three topics could be: objects, operators and parcels + subs. You > could spend 40 min on each of these doing 7 small topic questions. > Some of the questions should be in the style - convert this Perl5 to > Perl6. This will ground people in what they know already etc. I think some Java to Perl 6 examples would also be good, specifically if we could demonstrate how Perl 6 can do things that Java programmers find difficult in Java. That way we could try and appeal to the mainstream and hopefully some of the Uni lecturers... I'll email my Java lecturer and see if I can get some of the examples she uses and contacts for other Java lecturers that might send me theirs. Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
