====== Extreme Programming ======

This is an extracurricular activity that fosters your programming skills and algorithmic thinking, and communication skills regarding programming. These capabilities are often key to yield high-profile jobs from, e.g., Silicon Valley companies like Google. 

The club to which everyone -- both, little or significant programming skills -- is welcome, aims to:
  - boost your programming confidence
  - prepare you better for potential future jobs and programming competitions
  - show that the algorithmic problem solving is fun! 

|| Venue || Virtual, blackboard + Teams || 
|| Meetings || Weekly, Tuesday. 14:00-15:00 ||
|| Mailinglist || [[https://hps.vi4io.org/mailman/listinfo/club-extreme-programming]] ||
|| Contact || [[about:people:julian_kunkel]] ||


Generally, the agenda for the meetings is as follows:
  - we discuss the problems that have been issued in the last meeting, having one of you present the approach/a solution, potentially me to provide suggestions/solution approach.
  - two new problems are introduced (one easy and one hard). These problems are to be solved alone or in teams that you may form using the programming language of *your choice*.
  - we discuss the coarse-grained solution to these problems 
  - we discuss a data structure or algorithm, perform live coding of a problem, etc. 

There is room to discuss **your own** programming issues or ideas.

===== Meetings =====
  * 2020-10-14
    * Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
  * 2020-10-07 -- Starting of the autumn term
    * Live coding, discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
  * 2020-02-13
    * Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
  * 2020-02-06
    * Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
  * 2020-01-30
    * Discussed several challenges from https://edabit.com/challenges/cpp
  * 2020-01-23
    * Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/boatparts
  * 2020-01-16
    * Search problem
  * 2019-12-05
    * Discussed basic problems
  * 2019-11-28 (We now moved to Thursday!)
    * Discussed array handling
  * 2019-11-19
    * Discussed basic problems
  * 2019-11-05
    * Discussed basic problems
  * 2019-10-29:
    * Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/speedlimit

  * 2019-10-15
    * Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/pet
    * Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/hissingmicrophone

  * 2019-10-08
    * Discussed: 3DPrinter https://open.kattis.com/problems/3dprinter
    * Discussed: https://open.kattis.com/problems/timeloop
    * Easy homework: https://open.kattis.com/problems/encodedmessage

  * 2019-03-12

  * 2019-02-27
 
  * 2019-02-18: We will start Monday 9:30 as part of the [[http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/computer-science/|2019 Computer Science Hackathon and Showcase event]]

  * 2019-02-13: at 16:00 in G56
    * Based on the wishes of attendees: Excursion through sorting.
  
  * 2019-02-06: at 16:00 in G56
    * Live coding of some pseudo code in Java (an example problem given by class CS2NN and Yusuf).
    * Focusing on the last week's problems again.

  * 2019-01-30: at 15:00 in G56 (first Spring-Term meeting)
    * Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/battlesimulation
    * Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/dungeon
    * Hard: https://open.kattis.com/problems/classrooms
    * We will discuss the concepts of finate state automaton and recapitulate path-finding

  * 2018-12-11: at 16:00 in G56
    * Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/avoidingtheapocalypse
    * Shortest-path-algorithm Dijstra
    * Easy:
      * Simulation loop: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/10
      * Windowing: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/11

  * 2018-12-04: at 16:00 in G56
    * We'll have a look at the [[https://adventofcode.com/2018|AdventOfCode]]
      * Easy: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/1
      * https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/2
      * https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/3
    * Presentation of results of last weeks easy/medium problems
    * Live coding:
      * Implementing scanf (because scanf is annoying).
      * Summer of code examples
    * Medium task: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/4

  * 2018-11-28: at 16:00 in G56
    * Presentation of results of last weeks easy/medium problems
    * Discussion and live coding of: https://open.kattis.com/problems/3dprinter (Easy problem)
    * Home challenges
      * Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/2048
      * Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/10kindsofpeople
    * Discussion of data structures: arrays and stacks
    * 10 students attended

  * 2018-11-21: at 16:00 in G43
    * The home challenges were
    * Easy: https://open.kattis.com/problems/sevenwonders
    * Medium: https://open.kattis.com/problems/stickysituation
    * Hard: https://open.kattis.com/problems/marchofpenguins
    * See also the summary at the [[http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/computer-science/2018/11/21/inaugural-meeting-of-the-extreme-programming-club/|CS blog]]