Meet up

Patterns & Antipatterns in Teaching

Monday, 9th June at Skills Matter, London

This meetup was organised by LRUG: London Ruby User Group in June 2014

Overview

Adventures with data structures and algorithms

  • Why you should bother learning about them at all, especially if you think you won’t use them at work.
  • Some fun examples of data structures/algos you’ve heard of (and probably some you haven’t) and how they’re put to work in software you use every day.
  • Ways of learning them that I’ve found to be fun and effective.

I swear in the name of Knuth that there shall be no mention of big-o notation or sorting algorithms. Also, I will attempt a live demo of one of the algos using the SATR[$] transport protocol. It probably won’t work if you are good at the maths and feeling mischievous.

[$]: SATR – Shout Across The Room



Najaf Ali

Najaf Alii is a former developer who runs a small technical consultancy called Happy Bear Software.


Patterns & Antipatterns in Teaching

For more details on Mal's Codecraft work head to Codecraft's website



Mal Pinder

Ruby dev & teacher


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