Festival Dojo

We are almost ready to launch ticket sales for the upcoming Brighton Coding Dojo night which will be held at the Creativity Zone at Sussex on 10th May as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.   Tickets will be £3/£2 and the night will be fully catered (a real bargain).  Public, students and professional programmers are all welcome (although some knowledge of programming constructs is preferred).

Further information will become available on http://www.brightoncodingdojo.co.uk/ within the next week or so.

My major question right now is whether I think people can learn a new language and the concepts of test driven development in one session…  Should we announce the language so that people all have the chance to level the field and then apply TDD?  Should we just emphasise the learning the language together and make it an exploratory night?

This question will impact strongly on how the coding dojo night will be organised – as we cannot guarantee skill level, language or knowledge.  So far it is proving quite difficult.

The lack of clarity of purpose has affected even our publicity:

 

I fear people may expect some kind of performance-art martial-arts display on coding…