[LRUG] Mentoring Meetups

[Eleanor]

On 16 May 2007, at 18:47, Rob Crowther wrote:
> On 15/05/07, Eleanor <eleanor at goth-chic.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps a better alternative would be to devise a series of tutorial
>> problems that newbies can solve on their own, building in difficultly
>> over time.
>>
> I didn't attend the meeting, so I may be missing some context, but is
> there any reason why the 'tutorial problems' couldn't also be a part
> of a larger application?  The 'best' solutions could each
> week/month/whatever be incorporated into the code base and the next
> set of programming tutorial problems are then set (And if there are
> multiple problems for each phase, they could be of varying levels of
> difficulty to allow people to jump in at any time).
>
> This might take too much work on the mentoring side though?

Exactly. Whilst the idea of a big communal project appears to be very  
appealing, my inner cynic foresees a logistical nightmare in the  
making...


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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