[Buffalo-pm] Fwd: [tpm] March TPM & Pair Programming

[Jim Brandt]

Heads up on an interesting exercise the Toronto group is planning:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tom Legrady <legrady at rogers.com>
> Date: February 4, 2004 12:35:38 PM EST
> To: tpm at to.pm.org
> Subject: [tpm] March TPM & Pair Programming
>
> The March TPM meeting will be an exercise in pair programming. If you 
> have a laptop computer, preferably with Perl installed, please bring 
> it along.
>
> The way I envision things working:
>
> As people show up, they pair up into teams. This results in fairly 
> random teams, combining experienced and newer programmers. Unix/MS/Mac 
> should not be too significant a factor, though first-time exposure to 
> vi/emacs might be traumatic.
>
> I will have a detailed list of requirements, corresponding to the use 
> case index cards. I will play the role of "client" and 
> "contact-with-the-client", clarifying any questions or problems.
>
> The goal will be to implement certain functionality. It could be 
> written as a script, but I see it as a module, so that the implemented 
> capabilities can be made available to any program.
>
> After a couple of hours of coding, we could have 30 to 60 minutes of 
> discussion, comparing experiences, comparing implementations---after 
> all, having covered documentation, test-driven programming and pair 
> programming, we mustn't leave out code-review.
>
> Any suggestions for improvements, alternative arrangements?
>
>
> Can someone forward this to KW and Buffalo groups?
>
> Tom          TomDLux @ PerlMonks
>
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Jim Brandt
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