[LRUG] Understanding Computation Book Group?

[Drew Neil]

My hardcopy arrived in the post today. \o/

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Chris Kimpton <chris at kimptoc.net> wrote:

> Looks like the book is oreillys deal of the day
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> http://post.oreilly.com/form/oreilly/viewhtml/9z1zi708vuj7623goi0ck40p9prajperosf2imck2so?imm_mid=0a9636&cmp=em-code-books-videos-deal-day-understanding-computation
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> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, James Adam wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> So, here's a Lanyrd listing with the location and time details:
>> http://lanyrd.com/2013/compbookclub/
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> - James
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>> On 29 May 2013, at 07:34, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Done (on the assumption that time is really 6.30pm not 6.30am...)
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>> R
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>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:17 PM, John Maxwell <jgwmaxwell at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> +1 here too, have added myself as well
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>> On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, David Burrows wrote:
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>> +1, have added myself to the doodle
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>> --
>> David Burrows
>> 079 1234 2125
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>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:26 PM, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:
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>> Joel/Roland/JB/anyone else - can you fill in the Doodle?
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>> http://www.doodle.com/bd7aqhf9bbw2tsc3
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>> Cheers!
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>> - James
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>> On 28 May 2013, at 07:31, Joel Chippindale <joel.chippindale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> I'd be interested too.
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>> J.
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>> On 27 May 2013 23:17, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:54 PM, James Adam <james at lazyatom.com> wrote:
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>> Hello LRUG,
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Let me know,
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>> James
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