Exercism.io lightning talk

A quick lightning talk on Exercism.io presented at the local dev/como meet up. Unrehearsed, raw, kind of all over the place

Transcript

1. “ ƅϪƅ“) ohai…
2. Clint Hello! My name is me again…
3. lightning talk…
4. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ raw like sushi…
5. “You're not as good at $LANGUAGE as everyone else…
6. “You could be, if you practiced but you don’t…
7. - Me to myself, all the time…
8. not a single one…
9. • Ruby Programming Language • Agile Web Development with Rails (2,3,4) • Practical Object Oriented Design In Ruby • Sinatra: Up and Running • Rails Recipes • Programming Elixir • Core Animation for OS X • “Gang of Four” • Building Awesome Command Line Applications in Ruby • The Well-Grounded Rubyist all worth reading… Books I’ve read
10. Mean nothing if you don’t PRACTICE duh…
11. Enter exercism.io not that kind…
12. this kind…
13. Crowd-sourced mentorship alot ( ) of things… Supporting: Clojure, CoffeeScript, C#, Elixir, Go, Haskell, JavaScript, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl5, Python, Ruby, and Scala
14. • CLI client • Fetch exercises • Grok README • CODE • PASS tests • Submit • Refactor • Receive nitpicks repeat… How is exercism.io formed
15. • exposes me to try things • get's me writing code outside of work, by giving me things to work on • kick-starts the day • gets me reading documentation. A lot. all good things… Things exercism.io is/does for me
16. • teach you a language • get you to mastery • teach you engineering concepts • provide authority welp… Things exercism.io is/does not do
17. • most exercises can be done in less than 1/2 hour • if not, then I’m waaay overthinking something • or I'm reading a lot of docs on parts of $LANGUAGE I've not used, or not used enough • exercises are the same (or very similar) across languages (ů^_^)ů… Things I really like about exercism.io
18. • not enough nitpicks • no real authority on “correctness" • alot ( ) of people looking for nitpicks, but not giving them out • exercises are the same (or very similar) across languages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯… Things I don’t like about exercism.io
19. • forget about “correctness” • try new things • write alot ( ) of code • give feedback kindly • accept feedback humbly | (• ◡•)|/ \(❍ᴥ❍ʋ) … Epilogue
20. high-five…