Mastermind Clojure Pairing Group at The Recurse Center
This is an attempt to implement the Mastermind code breaking game via pair programming in Clojure with friends at Recurse Center.
For pair programming, we're using:
- tmate (hi-res terminal sharing)
- Zoom (audio/video)
- vim with fireplace for quasi-repl and file eval
lein replfor nrepl servertail -f .lein-repl-historyfor copy/pasting the history- tmux for split pane
Here's a screenshot of how it looks:
The left-hand side here shows a tmux pane with vim running, and the
quasi-repl command buffer from vim-fireplace at the bottom (accessible via
cqc). You can evaluate the module using cpr and you can evaluate any
expression under a cursor using cpp. For reference, you can use this nice
hotkey cheat sheet covering fireplace and paredit.
The right-hand side is two panes.
The top-right pane is simply lein repl. You can evaluate expressions there, and the effects of any expressions
evaluated in vim will be visible there, since they are sharing the same nrepl
connection.
The bottom-right pane is nothing more than tail -f .lein-repl-history. This
helps to just see the expressions (especially multi-line expressions) in plain
text, so they can be copy-pasted back into vim using tmux clipboard control.
If instead of running regular tmux, you run tmate instead, you now get the same environment but available for multi-user pair programming at high speed on pretty much any internet connection. Nice!
Since this is part of a book club, we're using concepts from "The Joy of Clojure" (Manning Press) and "The Elements of Clojure" in writing our code.
Ironically, though we are implementing Mastermind, the board game, these pairing sessions also serve as "mastermind group" for a few professional programmers expanding their functional programming horizons beyond the usual concepts found in languages like Python and JavaScript.