[LRUG] April Meeting - 16th April - Lineup?

[Murray Steele]

Here's a thought, how many other folk would be interested in a beginners
session?  I'm not sure we've ever 'formally' gauged the skill levels in the
group, so it's possible we're leaving folk behind.  We could easily do one
next month if there was some interest, and, of course, someone willing to
run it.

What would people want from a beginners session?

Intro to programming or intro to ruby?
Delve into the class library, or discuss some of the language tricks?
Regular Expressions?
Classes vs. Modules?
Explanations of chunks of code you've seen?
Other things?

Muz


On 03/04/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone willing to do a beginner's session? I realise I may be the only
> person who would find that useful, though, but if anyone does fancy
> spending a little time with me then there'll certainly be a pint or
> two in it for them!!
>
> Suw
>
> On 4/2/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > As it's a bit closer to the 16th of April we should probably nail down
> the
> > contents of the meeting.  So, anyone any firmer on if they'll be
> available
> > or willing to do something?
> >
> > Muz
> >
> >
> >  On 19/03/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The April LRUG meeting will break from our 2nd Monday of the month
> routine
> > to avoid clashing with Easter Monday, and will be on the 16th of April,
> not
> > the 9th.  Jonathan Lim has created an Upcoming event for your calendar
> > subscription pleasure ( http://upcoming.org/event/165162/),
> > but there's scant few details about content as yet.  Based on what's
> > bubbling around the list we might have one or more of the following:
> > >
> > > * A discussion about REST (see this thread:
> > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-February/000916.html
> > or this follow up one:
> > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-March/000981.html
> > )
> > > * Another round of code-review (people seemed keen on making this a
> > regular part of the meetings, and we didn't get through all the bits
> > submitted)
> > > * A talk about Lucene / Ferret / Solr (David Townsend put himself
> forward
> > for this)
> > > * Something about RSpec (nobody really volunteered themselves for
> this,
> > but people seem interested and it's worth suggesting again just in case)
> > > * Paolo's talk about TabNav that we missed from February (assuming
> he's
> > still interested in giving it).
> > >
> > > Is there anything else?  Clearly we won't do everything in April, but
> it's
> > good to have options as they'll spill over into future meetings.
> > >
> > > There's good groundswell for the REST discussion, who wants to be on
> the
> > "panel" or host it?  Jonathan Leighton or Eleanor seem like ideal
> candidates
> > as you guys were the most vocal on those threads, is there anyone else?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Muz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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