Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

I'll be attending the one in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Hopefully every event gets a great Corey Haines substitute, because he made the code retreat in Amsterdam last year an awesome learning experience.

Re: Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

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Post by ctataryn » Fri, Nov 04, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

marcjeanson wrote: post #4

Winnipeg (Canada) is representing! This will be our 3rd code retreat this year.

Looking forward to it! Probably going to use Scala or Clojure

Re: Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

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Post by searls » Fri, Nov 04, 2011, 1:43 PM UTC

Participating in a Code Retreat is one of the wisest investments a developer can make in their career. Depending where you're at on your journey, attending a day-long Code Retreat could significantly change your life.

If you're relatively new to the agile/xp/software craftsmanship community, you get:

- As good an overview of test-driven development and simple design as you're likely to find anywhere.

- An introduction to people in your community who are probably themselves excellent software developers and who can support both your learning and your professional network.

If you're already experienced in TDD/BDD, Code Retreat is great for:

- Humbling you. It's a rigorous exercise, and a lot of its value is derived from the emphasis that no one take any shortcuts—it's great for identifying and tackling one's own bad habits.

- Its low-pressure environment. There is expressly no expectation that you "finish" with a working implementation. This frees you up to nurture or reclaim your own vision of what an "ideal" design is by focusing on perfecting just a small aspect of the problem.

- Pairing with extremely bright people on a challenging problem; because so few of the solutions are obvious, Code Retreat is actually great communication practice.

Re: Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

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Post by john_p_wood » Fri, Nov 04, 2011, 1:46 PM UTC

I went to a code retreat back in July. It was a great experience, and I would highly recommend it. You can read about my experience at http://johnpwood.net/2011/07/29/what-i-learned-by-attending-...