[Campus-columbia-staff] Tasks, and mentors

[Asheesh Laroia]

Such is life! Good luck with the emergency!

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Katherine Chuang <katychuang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm so sorry, work emergency came up... won't be able to make it today.
> Ready to pull my hair out, argh!  =(
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> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
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>> 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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