book-club

Book club management application

Hi, Any recommendation for a downloadable web based application (I wan a self/personal install) for managing books within a book club? It should require users to be registered, track who has what books, who has borrowed which book from another member, all with the appropriate and configurable privacy controls of course. ...

Tips for starting and running a Programmer's Book Club

I've been toying with the idea of starting a reading group at work. We'd pick a book like The Pragmatic Programmer or Practices of an Agile Developer, hopefully get the company to buy us copies (or just get our own), read a chapter or two a week and then get together at the beginning or end of the week to discuss the chapter and the prac...

good code dojo question for introductory scala?

Hi folks--we're reading Programming Scala in our tech book club, and I'm thinking having a quick code dojo after the introductory chapters would be a good way to get our feet wet with the language before we proceed on. Does anyone have ideas for good programming problems that we could tackle in a 30-45 session that exercise basic Scala? ...