23: All first time participants, facilitators knowing Game of Life and supporting the global event

In this episode I am answering Lars' questions:

• Any problems when all participants are first-time Coderetreat participants?
• Any problems when all participants have never heard of the Game of Life?
• Is it required to solve the Game of Life before facilitating a Coderetreat?
• During (pre Covid) Global Day of Coderetreat, which activities support the global event?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Christian Hujer's Game of Life sample solution
• Game of Life, Apache Ant
• Game of Life, 1 line APL
• Game of Life, short functional solution in Clojure
• Game of Life, 256 bytes Commodore Assembly
• Game of Life, TSQL
• Game of Life, XSLT
• Join the Software Crafters Slack Team (Channel #coderetreat)

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18: Corey Haines' Cleveland Coderetreat Introduction Part 2

In this episode Corey Haines will introduce you to

• Coderetreat Day Structure.
• Using different programming languages.
• Conway's Game of Life.

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Check out the full video here:

Material in this episode and related episodes:

• Corey Haines' Cleveland Code Retreat Introduction from Corey Haines on Vimeo
• Episode 16: Part 1
• Episode 05: Coderetreat Day Structure
• Episode 01: Learning a new language
• Episode 02: Explain the Game of Life
• Conway's Game of Life

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10: Coding Dojo Mindset and Game of Life is mandatory

In this episode I am answering

• What is the Coding Dojo Mindset? (What is the core mindset of a Coderetreat?)
• Is Game of Life mandatory?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Alex Bolboaca: The Coderetreat Problem Is Not The Problem

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08: Why pair program, finish the Game of Life and how many facilitators do we need

In this episode:

• Why do we pair program the whole Coderetreat?
• Is it possible to finish the Game of Life assignment in a single session?
• How many facilitators do we need and when do we need more than one?

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02: Minimum number participants, retrospective without observations and explain the Game of Life

In this episode I will answer the following questions:

• Should we consider a minimum number of participants to run a Coderetreat?
• What to focus on during a retrospective if no "noticeable" events had happened during that session?
• How to help new participants get used to the exercise of Game of Life?

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Thanks to my friends Paul Rohorzka, David Leitner and Christian Haas from Developer Melange and Raimo Radczewski for feedback on this episode.

Posters with the rules by Marco Emrich.

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