Dungeons and Patterns

Premise

Explore a fantasy world full of patterns.

You will...

• Work with a team
• Solve pattern-related puzzles
• Reflect on what you've learned

Format

• Half day.
• About 2/3 to 3/4 is game time, with the rest introduction and follow-up.

Outline

1. Introduction: why dungeons, why patterns?
2. Game, part 1
       Break
3. Game, part 2
4. Debrief
5. Summary and wrap-up

Audience

Any level of knowledge about the book Design Patterns (Gamma et al.). (It will be most fun if there is a variety of experience levels.)

No prior experience with role-playing games is required.

Offerings

OOPSLA 2001 through 2004.

Private offerings (email William.Wake@acm.org)

Instructors

William Wake (William.Wake@acm.org, www.xp123.com) is a programmer, the author of Extreme Programming Explored, and the inventor of the Test-First Stoplight and the Programmer’s Cube.

Background Reading

Design Patterns, Erich Gamma et al. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

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