Hi,
You have expressed interest to participate in Global Day of CodeRetreat 2020. We would like to share some information about what to expect during this event. Coderetreat is about “focused practice” - learning of “how-to” instead of “what-to”. It is useful for developers at all levels, from beginners (who have learned the syntax of at least one language) to experienced professional programmers. This kind of learning is best achieved in groups. We encourage working in pairs or larger groups (known as “MobProgramming” or “All People In programming”).
We have decided to host this year’s coderetreat online, and limit it to half a day because lack of physical interaction makes collaborative work much harder for many people. Because of that we want to spend very little time on introduction and organization and rely instead on prep-work by participants and the power of self-organization.
- Please read https://www.coderetreat.org/the-workshop/
- Make sure you read the 4 rules of Game Of Life (wikipedia or watch 1 of the million videos on youtube): https://youtu.be/FdMzngWchDk
- Make sure you have Zoom & Discord, GitHub and email that can be used with Google Docs.
- Answer this questionnaire: http://bit.ly/gdcr-sea-2020-survey. We hope it will help everybody (including facilitators) to form pairs and mobs.
- Checkout cyber-dojo.org or gitpod.io if you don’t want to use your favorite programming environment on your laptop. Checkout https://github.com/GDCR-SEA, clone the skeleton for GoL in your favorite language and make sure you can run the 1st test (not needed for cloud based env).
- Join our Telegram Group: https://t.me/joinchat/AMjNsFARUBo1fvWOtP1aiQ
We will start with everybody in zoom at 9am sharp! After a brief introduction of 15min, we will spend 20 min to allow people to self-organize into learning groups. For this we will rely on a shared google sheet and Discord. The google sheet will contain the results from the questionnaire (without emails) and instructions on how to form groups. Discord will be used for all other communications, including asking for help from facilitators.
There will be 3 coding rounds of 45 min (strict timebox) + 15 min retrospective after each. This retrospective is for the groups to discuss what they have learned during the coding session and what to do in the next retrospective. People are free to keep working in the same group or join another group (or create a new one) for the next round. You are encouraged to delete all code after each coding session and start the next session from scratch.
There will be a lunch break of 1 hr between 11:20 and 12:35.
At the end of the day we will return all together to zoom for a final retrospective.
We have never done this format before, but we hope it will be fun and everybody will learn something useful.
Please read the official CoC: https://www.coderetreat.org/resources/code-of-conduct/
Additionally, you might want to checkout why such documents exist: https://dev.to/miccheng/singapore-tech-community-stance-on-harassment-9ed
We trust you will do your best to make this event fun and useful for yourself and other participants. Please be considerate when speaking and messaging with others.
See you soon!
Organisers,
Global Day of CodeRetreat, Southeast Asia