Workshop Planning

Structure

Structured with 30 minute chunks, with a clear explanation of what people are about to do.

• present some code,
• explain what it does,
• show the result,
• have people either fiddle with it to make it do something different; or write something similar

Show and tell

• This speaks to other stuff like making forking and committing part of the way this works.
• Have repos availabile for each project
• Use Gorilla REPL

Content

• Clojure Distilled (make slides, use Gorilla)
• Robots
  • Robocode
  • joegallo/robots clojure wrapper
  • krajj7/BotHack
• Quil/Game
  • First session, something very small
    • mine ClojureBridge
    • use early examples from Generative Art
  • Pong
• Component based system
  • Recommendation engine, sentiment analysis, something like that
  • piping data through a series of components
    • core.async
    • java concurrent queue
  • Everyone makes a component
    • use com.stuartsierra.component to demo
    • help people make one
  • Wire them together at the end