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In The Brain of Jon Jagger: Cyber Dojo
Cyber Dojo

A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration.

In a CyberDojo:
the players work in small groups
each group works at a single computer
each group writes their code and their test-code totally inside a web browser
each group submits their code and test-code to the CyberDojo server as often as they wish
the CyberDojo server saves the submission, runs the tests, and returns the test-outcome to the browser

To encourage collaboration every five minutes the server plays a round of ""musical chairs"" by asking the keyboard drivers to move to a new computer and take up a non-driver role at the new computer.

The aim of a CyberDojo is to collaborate collectively towards working solutions on all laptops. A CyberDojo is fun and stimulating. We will need one laptop for every two people so if you have a laptop please bring it.

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ABOUT JON JAGGER
Jon Jagger is a well-known software coach-consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer specializing in agile software development (people and process), test driven development, deliberate practice, design, analysis, OO, UML, curly bracket languages (C#, C, C
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