keeferrourke / f19-relay

Relay programming workshop for the fall 2019 semester

f19-relay

Relay programming workshop for the fall 2019 semester.

This workshop provides three (3) programming challenges which are each aimed to be beginner-intermediate difficulty.

The workshop should take one (1) hour.

For Participants

To get started, simply run the setup.sh script in this directory.

You can stop reading here and await further instructions.

Challenge descriptions

Challenge description sources are located under the src directory. PDFs are generated from RMarkdown sources via Pandoc. Markdown compilation will require a LaTeX distribution and Pandoc to be have been installed.

Documents are compiled as follows:

pandoc -o instructions.pdf instructions.md

How to run this workshop

1. Instruct everyone in the workshop to split into teams of three (3) people.

2. Every participant should log into Github and be comfortable with forking and cloning projects.

3. Assign a number from 1 to 3 to each participant in each group. This number will correspond to the challenge that they begin with.

4. Have each participant fork this repository. Do not continue until everyone has done this!

5. Once everyone has a fork, ensure that each person in each team has exchanged their usernames.

   Have them run the setup.sh script and follow the prompts.

   Each participant will begin working in their own repository, and by the end of the work shop, they will have worked in each of them.

6. When everyone is ready, start the timer and tell groups to open the challenge_01, challenge_02, or challenge_03 documents as according to the number they were assigned.

   Participants will now be allowed to read their instructions and begin coding.

7. When time is up, yell STOP! Everyone must stop coding! They will be instructed to clone the next logical repository. I.e. ParticipantOne will clone ParticipantTwo's repo. ParticipantTwo will clone ParticipantThree's repo. ParticipantThree will clone ParticipantOne's repo.

8. Reset the timer and yell START! Participants will pick up where their teammate left off.

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 one more time.

10. That's the end! Poll the room to see how people did. Did anyone arrive at working solutions for any of the problems? What challenges did people encounter? How did they get around them? Try to encourage some discussion.

11. Poll interest about CS Games! Now's about time to start pulling a team together!