[Noisebridge-discuss] CodeBridge

[Jay Reynolds Freeman]

I am much more interested in a helping-beginners session than in the high-level
discussion group that the Scheme meeting seems to be turning into; if this new group
gets going I will happily abandon the Sunday Scheme session and come to the
new group's meetings instead.  I think Scheme is an excellent beginning programming
language, and I would like it if we had a simple Scheme code-writing session that stayed
with low-level nuts-and-bolts coding.

Weekend times work best for me at the moment.

(Not that I have anything against the high-level concepts, but there is enough about
them on line and in books that I feel it wastes my time to have a sit-down-and-talk
meeting about them; while on the other hand, newcomers often seem to benefit
from interactive discussion about how to do things.)

Jay Reynolds Freeman
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On Apr 12, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Chris Bolton wrote:

> Sending out a second call to anyone who's interested. I know everyone doesn't follow this list super closely so if you know anyone who's looking to get into programming let 'em know! :]
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Chris Bolton <chriskun at saikonet.org> wrote:
> Hey guys! Soo I was wondering if anyone was interested in new programming meetup (I guess similar to the codebridge initiative that was briefly outlined on the wiki but I think it died.) I currently attend the sunday scheme meetup but it seems to be more of a higher-level discussion group about fundamental CS concepts, and how this meetup would differ would basically be that we'd be more focused on actual projects, showing newbies how to get started, and just getting getting your code to a working state, in general. The main languages I'd be wanting to focus on/help with would be haskell and scheme, but I 'spose we could branch out if there was enough interest.
> 
> So yeah! This would include people who are completely new to programming as well as those who are experienced but want a group to collaborate with. If we have a lot of the former it could be structured more like a formal class, and if we have a lot of the latter it could be structured more informally with more one-on-one help. Again, the main idea is to come with your own project ideas and/or willingness to help with others and we can help you make them a reality :]
> 
> So, what are everyone's thoughts? Any specific days in mind? I was thinking saturday..
> 
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