Hi, On Jul/14/2013, andrea crotti wrote: > 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..
funny enough, when it's super-specified and quoting you later in your email: "it seems more like work than a dojo to me.." :-) I like some freedom in what to implement, not in only how to implement. -- Carles Pina i Estany Web: http://pinux.info || Blog: http://pintant.cat _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk