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Global Day of Coderetreat: My recap of the coding event

... but I really don't see any downside to Coderetreat. If you value the craft of programming, you owe it to yourself to go to the next one in your area.

I could just be your writing skill, but I believe problem solving like that would be exciting.

Thanks for sharing.

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Someone I know, who was at the code retreat I attended on the same day (in Colorado), actually finished a Conway's Game of Life implementation in the allotted 45 mintues, complete with a glider gun shooting gliders across the screen.

Of course, I found that TDD didn't really slow us down (we used it even in our C session). Had they ever written a Life game before?

Yes, he was using TDD. Yes, he had also written a Conway's Game of Life implementation before (though different from the implementation he wrote this time).

He wrote this account of the experience of the code retreat:

http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20111204_150338

I would have liked to try Prolog for this, though I expect my unfamiliarity with Prolog would have consumed the entire 45 minutes.

I think I'll take a shot at describing my code retreat experience, over at http://blogstrapping.com -- but I don't intend to describe things in as much detail as either you or Sean did. I'll probably do some hand-wavy overview stuff. I'll mention that it might be my fault someone tried Prolog, for instance.