StudyGroups

A humble tail of group learning.

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1. StudyGroups A tale of group learning @gogogarrett
2. Study
3. Groups
4. <start> ☞ there is too much to learn ☞ don't need to know it all ☞ learn what you care about
10. Yeah.
11. I work at Blake
12. We do Education
13. We do Education as a service
14. We do Education as a service in the cloud
15. We do Education as a service in the cloud for kids
17. It's pretty sweet
18. We enjoy learning
19. Weekly study groups Weekly tech talks Weekly book clubs
21. Why
22. defmodule Knowldge do use GenServer def init(_) do {:ok, %{skill: 0}} end def handle_call(:over_nine_thousand, _from, skill_state) do new_skills = %{skill_state | skill: 9001} {:reply, new_skills, new_skills} end end iex(1)> {:ok, pid} = GenServer.start_link(Knowldge, []) {:ok, #PID<0.80.0>} iex(2)> GenServer.call(pid, :over_nine_thousand) %{skill: 9001}
23. Expose yourself to another way of thinking
24. Find new interesting ways to solve the familiar problems
25. Reinforce knowledge you already have
26. Find better tools for the job
27. Experience at Blake ☞ Haskell ☞ Elixir
28. Haskell
29. Haskell is hard
30. First real exposure to functional programming.
31. Learned a lot (heaps).
32. Helped inspire ✨Hopscotch✨
33. Elixir the future ™
34. Thanks.
36. Concurrency Error Handling Fault tolerance Pubsub Realtime
37. How we do it
38. Small groups
39. Achievable work load
40. All working on same thing
41. At the same place (generally)
42. Group Learning ☞ people naturally have different interest ☞ people will learn different things ☞ people help hold you accountable to do your part ☞ great for quick feedback for help ☞ as a collective group, you can solve bigger problems
43. We started with Exercism.io ☞ TDD (test pre written) ☞ small units of work ☞ 30mins - 2hrs per question ☞ great to get feedback ☞ completed homework required at the door
44. Read Books ☞ help reinforce the basics ☞ explain in depth which aids in understanding ☞ actually work through the books (no copy/pasta)
45. Explored the complex parts ☞ GenServer/GenFSM ☞ Supervisor/Applications ☞ Multi-Node ☞ Deployments
46. Advanced to custom projects
47. Superbowl
49. Vegas
52. Practice by @15mindrawings
54. Tackle big problems, little problems at a time
56. to encourage learning, create a safe environment
57. to empower individuals, allow them to create
58. thanks. @gogogarrett