The Plan

[jdantonio]

A group of us met tonight at Panera and planned out a study group for SICP. I'll be posting more information to the Akron Code Club meetup page and to this repo. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you were not able to meet with us tonight.

In a Nutshell

Out study group will follow the MIT SICP course. We will complete the first 8 lessons and the first programming project. We will meet in-person twice a month to conduct code reviews and share answers. Upon completion we will conduct a retrospective and decide if we want to form another study group to continue on.

The Details

Curriculum

• 2005 SICP course at MIT hosted on MIT OpenCourseWare.
• We will follow the structure of the course calendar completing L1-8 and R1-8.
• This corresponds to readings L1-8.
• This corresponds to video lectures 1A, 1B, and 2A.
• We will work on one lesson and one reading per week, and do all of the assignments (exercises and problem sets) in order, with one exception. We will work on Project 1 at the same time as R8 and L8.

  Meetings

• We will meet twice a month on the first and third Mondays (the monthly Code Club meeting is on the second Monday).
• Meetings will correspond with even numbered lessons (2, 4, 6, 8).
• We will have an optional InstallFest meeting prior to the first official meeting.
• We will have a optional retrospective meeting after the final official meeting.
• If we decide to continue with the course we will use the retrospective to plan the next phase.
• A different member of the study group will volunteer to facilitate each meeting.
• Each meeting will last no more that two hours.
• The location of the meetings is to be determined but will be in Fairlawn (probably the Panera where we met today).

Study group members are encouraged to organize in-person and virtual meetings throughout the course. Feel free to use the Akron Code Club meetup page and GitHub issues to organize meetings. Google+ Hangouts, Gitter, and other free tools are available for those who cannot meet in person.

Tools

• The primary scheduling tool will be the Akron Code Club meetup page. Every meeting will be entered into meetup.
• We will share code through this GitHub repo. Every study group member will be given commit access and a subdirectory of their own.
• Online discussions will use the issues page of this repo (not the discussion forums in meetup).
• Online chatting will use the Gitter chat room for this repo.
• Study group members are encouraged to use pull requests and commit comments to perform code reviews.
• All assignments will be done using the MIT Scheme programming language.
• Study group members are encouraged to complete assignments in other languages if they are interested and time permits, but this will be solely for fun and additional learning.

  Assignments

• Assignments (exercises, problem sets, and project) will be post as milestones in this GitHub repository.
• Each week we will choose ~3 "required" exercises. These are the exercises that we will review at the regular meetings and should be considered the minimum commitment.
• Projects 0 and 1 are due in weeks 2 and 8, respectively.

  Expectations

The study group is a collective endeavor. To be successful as a group we ask that all participants adhere to a few agreed upon responsibilities. We agree that the success of this group depends on us working together in a supportive and respectful manner. Thus we ask all participants to meet the following expectations:

• RSVP to all meetings using the RSVP feature of Meetup.com.
• Honor your RSVP. If you RSVP for a meeting and later decide you cannot attend change your RSVP to No.
• Read the required readings before each meetup.
• Do at least the "required" exercises before each meetup.
• Submit your code to GitHub before each meetup.
• Be prepared to discuss your solutions to the "required" problems during each meetup.
• Time permitting, endeavor to answer questions about and discuss your code online in GitHub.
• Provide respectful, helpful code reviews during the meetups.
• Time permitting, provide respectful, helpful code reviews online through GitHub.
• Attend as many of the regularly scheduled meetings as possible.

  Code Review Guidelines

• CodeProject
• MSDN
• thoughtbot

  Assignment and Meetup Timelines

Can be found here

To-do

• [x] Post your GitHub username to this issue or the planning issue #1 so you can be given access to the repository (ALL)
• [x] Add all meetings to Meetup.com (Jerry)
• [x] Post all assignments as milestones in GitHub (Jerry)
• [x] Verify Panera as the meeting location or find an alternate (Jerry)

[jonknapp]

@jonknapp

[jdantonio]

@RickBacci You're in. @jonknapp Invitation sent.

[mdohring]

@mdohring

[jdantonio]

@mdohring Invitation sent.

[eyston]

@eyston huey_p

[jdantonio]

@eyston Invitation sent.

[thoolihan]

@thoolihan is my username. Looking forward to it.

[jdantonio]

@thoolihan Invitation sent.

[grantwinney]

Jerry, I posted under issue #1 but it's closed, and I don't know if it notifies you of new responses when an issue is closed. My github username is @grantwinney. I promise I won't post a similar message under every issue. :p

[jdantonio]

@grantwinney Sorry for the delay. I did receive a notification from the closed thread, but I was at home sick. I've added you now.

[jonknapp]

@jdantonio were we all going to have commit access to this repo? or should we use forks?

[jdantonio]

Commit directly to this repo. I've sent you an invitation.

[jonknapp]

I get:

remote: Permission to AkronCodeClub/sicp-study-group.git denied to jonknapp.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/AkronCodeClub/sicp-study-group.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Did you add coffeeandcode instead of jonknapp ?

[jdantonio]

I added @jonknapp but GitHub says you never accepted the invitation. Did you get an invitation email?

[jonknapp]

I guess not.... :(

I'll poke around for it.

Jonathan Knapp Coffee and Code, LLC www.coffeeandcode.com 330.510.5997

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:59 AM, jdantonio notifications@github.com wrote:

I added @jonknapp https://github.com/jonknapp but GitHub says you never accepted the invitation. Did you get an invitation email?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/AkronCodeClub/sicp-study-group/issues/3#issuecomment-70107837 .

[jonknapp]

@jdantonio: found it. sorry to waste your time.

[jdantonio]

@jonknapp You, sir, are never a waste of my time! :-)

[joel-bentley]

@joel-bentley

[jdantonio]

@joel-bentley Invitation sent, and I've added your directory to the repo.

[tezyn]

@tezyn joshua_r

[jdantonio]

@tezyn I've created your subfolder and give you permissions to the repo. You should receive an email from GitHub soon.

[thoolihan]

Sorry to say I am going to drop out of this. With the January and February travel schedule I have for the new job, I've already missed too many meetings and the next couple don't work either. Enjoy everyone, sorry to be missing out.

[jdantonio]

@thoolihan I'm sorry to hear that you won't be joining us, but I'm happy you've found such a great opportunity with the new gig.

[thoolihan]

Thanks @jdantonio. Once things settle down, I'll try to make one of the breakfasts or other meetings. It would be good to catch up

[jonknapp]

I might be dropping out as well. I picked up an interesting project with a tight deadline and I haven't looked at the book much in the past few weeks. I might catch up and stop out again, but for now it looks like it's been moved lower in my priority list.

[gvoudzon]

This is Ed Macall. Can I beam down?

[gvoudzon]

Yeah, I know. "Where was I last month?"

[jdantonio]

Given the number of people who've had to drop out and that fact that I am still very far behind, I must drop out, too. If someone else wants to take over I'll happily add that person as the event organizer. Otherwise I'll just cancel.

I sincerely apologize to the few in the group that were able to keep up and were enjoying the study group.

[gvoudzon]

Are people still going to Panera Bread or the Coffee house tonight?

[rickbacci]

I'm not going now. Think we would be at 4 people, plus I'm leaving for Denver in a few weeks anyway. On Mar 2, 2015 11:42 AM, "gvoudzon" notifications@github.com wrote:

Are people still going to Panera Bread or the Coffee house tonight?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/AkronCodeClub/sicp-study-group/issues/3#issuecomment-76747433 .

[rpottsoh]

I'm out for this evening as well.

Sent from my android device.

[gvoudzon]

I hope if some people catch up that we might still be able to pick it up again in the future.