[Campus-columbia-staff] Tasks, and mentors

[Katherine Chuang]

I'm so sorry, work emergency came up... won't be able to make it today.
Ready to pull my hair out, argh!  =(


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:

> In the interest of sanity for all, I think it's probably best for me
> to not try hard to find particularly many new tasks for students to
> work on.
>
> Given that we have about as many students as tasks, and also that
> often students get lost mid-way through the process, I encourage
> (admittedly from far away; Shauna has the final word on this and other
> things) you to ask students to pair up.
>
> "Pair programming" is a particular mode of work where one person has a
> computer, and both people talk through what to do with it.
> http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html is a good simple
> introduction ;
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/11/pair-programming-vs-code-reviews.html
> covers it in more depth.
>
> I'll be available online during the workshop, but I'll be far away in
> sunny (?) San Francisco.
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