[Noisebridge-discuss] CodeBridge

Evan Bangham ebangham at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 16:46:40 UTC 2011


How about a Haskell version of the scheme meetings?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Jay Reynolds Freeman <
jay_reynolds_freeman at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
> -------------------------------
> Jay_Reynolds_Freeman at mac.com
> http://web.mac.com/Jay_Reynolds_Freeman
>
>
>
> 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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