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Justin Herrick
September 18, 2014
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Mentoring and Teaching Developers
The how and why of mentoring along with some tips as an apprentice
Justin Herrick
September 18, 2014
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Transcript
Teaching & Mentoring Developers Justin Herrick @jah2488
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Teaching and Mentoring
Teaching as Mentoring
Teaching ! academic focused theoretical focused
Mentoring ! workplace focused vocation focused
Mentoring “Instilling wisdom and experience from one individual to another”
Relationships
Relationships
Relationships
Relationships
Why
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Learning by Teaching
Accelerated Learning Knowledge Time
Everyone can be a mentor
The mentor - apprentice relationship should be one of mutual
respect.
Know the learning style of you and your apprentice
Visual Aural Verbal Physical Logical Social - Solitary
Don’t teach what you were taught
Teach what you know
Don’t teach the way you were taught
“Well, the first book I was forced to read was
‘The He-Mans Book To Structured Computer Programs’ and look how I turned out.”
“Post hoc ergo propter hoc”
Good Mistakes Bad Mistakes
Learning Mistakes Painful Mistakes
Struggling with everything in Vim ! Losing work due to
VCS configured wrong ! Nuking a production server
Subpar design Pain ! Exploring a ‘clever’ technique ! Using
(and debugging) a cutting edge technology
“You knew this was a bad idea.”
Giving Advice
Provide the direction to the answer ! Not the answer
directly
Honesty
Honest about your own skills
Honest with their skills and progress
Don’t Be Mean
Be a Resource
Be a curator
Assignments
Good Assignments
point(x, y) ! rect(x, y, w, h, opacity, rgb, border_w,
border_h, border_rgb)
Being an Apprentice
Be curious
Consume everything
Take notes
Apprenticeship Patterns http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001813/index.html
Finding a Mentor
Meetups! !
The End