[LRUG] Understanding Computation Book Group?

[Chris Kimpton]

Looks like the book is oreillys deal of the day

http://post.oreilly.com/form/oreilly/viewhtml/9z1zi708vuj7623goi0ck40p9prajperosf2imck2so?imm_mid=0a9636&cmp=em-code-books-videos-deal-day-understanding-computation



On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, James Adam wrote:

> Thanks everyone for responding via the Doodle so far. It's looking like
> Tuesday 4th is a clear winner, so let's settle on that date. If you can't
> make it please don't worry, as I'm sure you'll be able to make it to the
> next one.
>
> So, here's a Lanyrd listing with the location and time details:
> http://lanyrd.com/2013/compbookclub/
>
> My suggestion for this first one is that everyone tries to read chapter 2
> (this first chapter is the Ruby intro), and then we can see where things go
> after that.
>
> 6:30pm at GFR HQ (address etc is on the Lanyrd). If you're kind enough to
> indicate attendance, I might even try to arrange a couple of beers.
>
> - James
>
>
> On 29 May 2013, at 07:34, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Done (on the assumption that time is really 6.30pm not 6.30am...)
>
> R
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:17 PM, John Maxwell <jgwmaxwell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> +1 here too, have added myself as well
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, David Burrows wrote:
>
> +1, have added myself to the doodle
>
> --
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>
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>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:26 PM, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:
>
> Joel/Roland/JB/anyone else - can you fill in the Doodle?
>
> http://www.doodle.com/bd7aqhf9bbw2tsc3
>
> Cheers!
>
> - James
>
>
> On 28 May 2013, at 07:31, Joel Chippindale <joel.chippindale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'd be interested too.
>
> J.
>
> On 27 May 2013 23:17, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be interested in this, dependant on dates/times etc. Unfortunately the
> SICP book club went the way of all SICP bookclubs - i.e. we didn't get
> beyond chapter 2...
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:54 PM, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:
>
> Hello LRUG,
>
> As you may or may not know, an LRUG member wrote a book that was published
> recently, called "Understanding Computation":
> http://codon.com/computation-book. If you saw his talk at Ru3y Manor,
> it's very much in the same vein - interesting ideas from "Computer Science"
> made more programmer-friendly.
>
> I know in the past a few people have gathered to talk about books like
> SICP, and I was wondering if anyone fancied reading Tom's book together and
> meeting to chat about it? We'd be very happy to host it at Go Free Range HQ
> (http://goo.gl/maps/6pm0j).
>
> Let me know,
>
> James
>
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