AliceC

Interested but no experience. (an XpVirgin?) Hoping to make it to XtC for first time for XtC28112000.

Looking for advice on how to find you all once in the pub - apart from "wander round aproaching anyone who looks geeky".

Please tell us more about yourself. --SteveF

Been coding commercially for nearly 4 years. Last few have been C/C++, mainly *nix. No formal training, not even a degree (of any sort).

I enjoy it, for the most part. But a lot of the things that get me down seem to be what xp is designed to solve: * Big messy projects with unclear objectives. * Sitting at same desk for hours. * Not being able to bounce problems off someone who'll have any idea what I'm talking about. * Sheer boredom and loneliness - no more "fun of the chase" and constructive playfullness and creativity.

I've done a very small amount of pair programming - but not within an xp framework. It just happened that there were urgent projects that either I needed help with, or I went in to help. Found I enjoyed those times more, was much more productive, the code we wrote was cleaner and neater. Made sense that this was a better way to work.

xp keeps popping up, with ever increasing frequency, so I thought I'd check you out.

Oh yes, and I was introduced to ths site by DaveKirby with whom I work.