[LRUG] Computer Science / Mathematics book group

[Tim Cowlishaw]

Hi all,

Many thanks to all of you who responded to the Poll (http://doodle.com/gca46nrwhpugnx47 
) ! I think I'm going to close it in 24Hrs, so please do vote if you  
haven't already and you'd like to attend.

The current front-runner is SICP, but you might especially want to  
drop in and cast a vote if you're interested in reading Godel's Proof,  
G.E.B. or Coders at Work, as they're all behind by just two votes.  
Once the poll for our choice of book is closed, I'll open some more to  
decide on locations, dates and possibly how-many-chapters-we-reckon- 
we'll-be-able-to-cover-in-a-month. If any of you have recommendations  
for decent pubs that would let us book out a table or two, I'd really  
be interested to know, please leave any suggestions you've got on the  
wiki (http://londoncsbookclub.pbworks.com/)!

Many thanks,

Tim

On 5 Nov 2009, at 22:45, Darren Syzling wrote:

> 2009/11/5 Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>:
>> I'd assumed that a book might take more than one month, and that we  
>> could
>> decide how many chapters to cover each month, then continue until  
>> finishing
>> before picking a new book. However, it needn't be that formalised -  
>> perhaps
>> if we have  a text to discuss, read as much of it as we each want  
>> to, then
>> at each meeting decide by consensus whether to continue into  
>> another month
>> or start something else, that could also work too... James's idea  
>> might also
>> be useful here, if we've got a queue of books ready, then those who  
>> read
>> quickly can progress on to the next one and offer those who need  
>> more time a
>> bit of a preview of what to expect.
>
> I wonder if you'd seen the SICP study group which started a few  
> months back:
> http://groups.google.com/group/wizardbookstudy
>
> Thought it might be interesting to read the group and the study
> schedule they were following for ideas. Also with SICP there appears
> to be great value in completing the exercises. As you mentioned not
> achievable within a month. Although I dare say that the structure of
> the reading and discussion schedule would depend on the material.
>
>
> -- 
> Darren
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