The goal of the study group is to learn together cool/advanced/edge stuff that we are not used to see in the PHP world, such as:
- Turing machines
- Data mining
- Esoteric languages
- Database internals
- Data structures
- Algorithms
- Pattern matching
- Cryptography
- Steganography
- Compilers
- ...
The idea is to choose 1 topic each month (4 weeks), curate some initial material (videos, blog posts, papers, books...) and try to have one goal for the end of the month. For example, if we choose esoteric languages, we would learn the first two weeks about the topic watching videos and reading posts/papers/books, discussing the materials in a forum, and then try to implement one esoteric language (e.g. brainfuck) in PHP in the other two weeks.
I think the group should be small, at least at first, so we can coordinate better. And at least 3-4 hours per week should be required, so only apply if you have time. We all procastinate, and even more if it is something optional like this, so only people ready to be active should be here. Having small goals during the month may help too.
Are you in? What do you think?
I'm absolutely in!!