Club Meetings

Welcome

• Welcome to the The Rust Programming Language book club!
• These slides are available at dslc.io/rust.
• We follow the Data Science Learning Community Code of Conduct.

• You can add notes on each slide with blocks like this!
• Load a deck in the browser and type “s” to see these notes.

Book club meetings

• Volunteer leads discussion of a chapter
  • This is the best way to learn the material.
• Presentations:
  • Review of material
  • Questions you have
  • Maybe live demo
• More info about editing: this github repo.
• Recorded, available on the Data Science Learning Community YouTube Channel (DSLC.video).
• Sign up to present

In case this is your first book club here, this is how things work. We’ll meet weekly and have a presentation followed by a discussion.

We’re working through this book collaboratively so everyone is encouraged to present a session or two. Please have a look at the schedule ASAP. We need presenters for the next 2 weeks.

Pace

• Goal: 1 chapter/week
• Ok to split overwhelming chapters
• Ok to combine short chapters
• Meet every week except holidays, etc
  • Ideally can discuss even if presenter unavailable
• Monday at 2:00 pm PST (2100 GMT)

The schedule will be consistent for the most part but if we need to make adjustments everyone will be notified well ahead of time. For example, we will most likely meet for one of the scheduled holiday breaks or combine 2 chapters to one week. Daylight savings in the spring comes right at the end of schedule and is particularly gnarly this year I’d like to finish before then.

Learning objectives (LOs)

• Students who study with LOs in mind retain more.
• Tips:
  • “After today’s session, you will be able to…”
  • Very roughly 1 per section.

When writing your presentation it can help to define learning objectives. This can help you identify the key points of the chapter, which also helps everyone else. It’s not strictly required though so don’t stress about it.