Coding Dojo 8

Coding Dojo Eight was last night.  We somewhat resurrected the number of attendees by finally appealing to a language other than Java, which I think constituted a good thing and was a refreshing change.  Dom ably led the session, and had put a lot of work into preparing slides and a starting point for addressing the soduku solving challenge for a second time.

This time the problems with finishing the challenge seemed lay more in the depth of the challenge to be explored, although there was again a divide between people who prefer using TDD and those who are not so familiar with it.  The age where the solver class sat empty will stick in my mind for some time, and will remind me of the power of well-timed tea-breaks to help the group along (and not to forego them in future).

My dojo energy is currently split between organising the weekly sessions and the exciting plans for the Fringe Festival Coding Dojo Night which will be held at the InQbate Creativity Zone at the University of Sussex on 10th May.  More details will become available on the event website soon.  It's enough to say that I am very excited about it.

Also, I have finally changed the FP dojo wiki from friki to vqwiki - affording me the option to actually make it look nice down the road.  The data is all transferred and the wiki is ready to be used.