[NCLUG] code retreat

[Bill Cthulhu]

Thanks to everyone who came on Tuesday night.

Here's the link to register for the code retreat on Dec 8th:
http://globalcoderetreat2012ftcollins.eventbrite.com/

-Bill

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <nclug-request at lists.nclug.org> wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Code Kata (Sean Reifschneider)
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:42:31 -0700
> From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Code Kata
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> Thanks to everyone who came, Momo Lolo for the space, Jim for the projector
> and Bill for organizing this.
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> We were doing roman numeral conversion, and went around a bit as far as how
> to do the conversion and detect errors.  Alex came up with an interesting
> way of doing the conversion that enumerated the valid choices for different
> combinations.
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> I looked at some implementations online after the kata tonight, and someone
> had used this simple solution.  You do the simpler algorithm we had
> earlier, but check for validity by running it through the function to go
> back to a roman numeral and if it doesn't match the input then it is
> invalid.
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> That was a clever way of doing it, and made for a VERY simple and obvious
> function.
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> However, at the time we didn't have a function to do the integer to roman
> conversion yet.
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> Sean
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