Peer coding and mentoring over the Internet
Sam Watkins
Standard (30 minutes) on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:30 - 12:00 in room Room 3
TAGS: Perl, Education, C, C++, Web & Online Technologies, Emerging Technologies & Innovation, Development Tools, open source project, programming, shell, collaboration
Peer programming works great on site, but can we achieve the same camaraderie and swift progess over the net and across the world? Can a teacher help someone learn coding at a distance, without wasting a lot of time? I'll talk about and demonstrate some simple tools for peer coding and mentoring. I would also like to show some other tools that can make a programmer's life more pleasant and enjoyable!
text of slides, code, etc:
http://sam.ai.ki/code/osdc2010/
Warning: The current code for 'hip' is horrible, mainly because I had a funny ambition to fit it all in a single 80x50 terminal screen. The next version will be clearer, and easy to use; please email me and encourage me to work on it!
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Sam Watkins
Programmer
Armaguard IT
I've been coding since before I could walk (well not quite), and I've coded professionally since my early teens. I'm interested in programming language development, graphical (node-and-arcs) programming, collaboration and networking tools, math and physics, and music and audio processing. I run a free internet server at http://ai.ki/ and http://nipl.net/, which has a once-thriving but now somewhat diminished community of hackers! My day job is at Armaguard IT, with a smattering of freelance and other projects.