Thanks! We had a great time :) The exercises successive steps on building a Slack bot that would order pizza from Dominos. I'm a little hesitant to go into all the details, because I'll probably do this workshop again :)
I think the pain points were two-fold: people were more junior than I anticipated and so struggled with some javascript concepts like closures and callbacks, and working with the Dominos API. The API is a little funky and the node lib we used had some idiosyncrasies.
But overall I think it was a great workshop, the teams really seemed to gel and seemed to genuinely enjoy the project and each other. For me as a workshop leader, it helped to not define success as "progress through the exercises", but as people's enjoyment and commitment to working on the project.
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Thanks! We had a great time :) The exercises successive steps on building a Slack bot that would order pizza from Dominos. I'm a little hesitant to go into all the details, because I'll probably do this workshop again :)
I think the pain points were two-fold: people were more junior than I anticipated and so struggled with some javascript concepts like closures and callbacks, and working with the Dominos API. The API is a little funky and the node lib we used had some idiosyncrasies.
But overall I think it was a great workshop, the teams really seemed to gel and seemed to genuinely enjoy the project and each other. For me as a workshop leader, it helped to not define success as "progress through the exercises", but as people's enjoyment and commitment to working on the project.