The London Python Code Dojo - an Education in Developer Education

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Monthly London meetups split into concrete formats: randori kata (pair rotation with a pilot and co‑pilot, ten‑minute driving slots using test‑driven development and a commit at each passing test), prepared kata demos, and a team dojo where 5–6 people vote on a problem, code for ~90 minutes and finish with show‑and‑tell and critique. Rooms host ~30, with ~15 core regulars; past projects include a multi‑month text adventure saved to GitHub. Pizza, beer, meetup.com signups and occasional O’Reilly book raffles support the community.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:08About me
3. 3:31Agenda
4. 4:39Acquisition
5. 4:56Skills
6. 5:06Improving Existing Skills
7. 7:46Prepared Quater
8. 8:38Randori Quater
9. 10:43What is a Dojo
10. 11:51First Meeting
11. 12:04First Mistake
12. 12:20randori quatre
13. 13:49data visualization
14. 14:05Audience participation
15. 14:48The plenary
16. 15:25Daves presentation
17. 15:49Small groups
18. 17:25Show Tell Dojo
19. 17:50Questions
20. 18:05Participation
21. 18:25Team Dojo
22. 18:37Great Egg Race
23. 19:20Group Dojo
24. 19:54Show Tell
25. 21:02Why Attend a Code Dojo
26. 24:02Community
27. 24:23Attendees
28. 25:06Philosophical Questions
29. 25:19Attendees Perspective
30. 25:31Its Fun
31. 25:53Solve Problems
32. 26:30Praise Report
33. 26:42What is a good Dojo
34. 27:13What makes a Dojo work
35. 27:30What is an educational experience
36. 27:55Sometimes that was staged
37. 28:40If it looks like that
38. 28:51you know youve got
39. 29:09group based Dojo
40. 30:03looking for teachers
41. 33:21Suzuki method
42. 33:50Ask questions
43. 34:21Autonomy
44. 34:45Python UK
45. 35:45Ruby Code Dojo
46. 39:45Meetupcom
47. 40:19Version Control
48. 41:45The Dojo Project
49. 46:49Fry IT
50. 47:21Python Book

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