Mentoring and Teaching Developers

The how and why of mentoring along with some tips as an apprentice

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1. Teaching & Mentoring Developers Justin Herrick @jah2488
3. Teaching and Mentoring
4. Teaching as Mentoring
5. Teaching ! academic focused theoretical focused
6. Mentoring ! workplace focused vocation focused
7. Mentoring “Instilling wisdom and experience from one individual to another”
8. Relationships
9. Relationships
10. Relationships
11. Relationships
12. Why
16. Learning by Teaching
17. Accelerated Learning Knowledge Time
18. Everyone can be a mentor
19. The mentor - apprentice relationship should be one of mutual respect.
20. Know the learning style of you and your apprentice
21. Visual Aural Verbal Physical Logical Social - Solitary
22. Don’t teach what you were taught
23. Teach what you know
24. Don’t teach the way you were taught
25. “Well, the first book I was forced to read was ‘The He-Mans Book To Structured Computer Programs’ and look how I turned out.”
26. “Post hoc ergo propter hoc”
27. Good Mistakes Bad Mistakes
28. Learning Mistakes Painful Mistakes
29. Struggling with everything in Vim ! Losing work due to VCS configured wrong ! Nuking a production server
30. Subpar design Pain ! Exploring a ‘clever’ technique ! Using (and debugging) a cutting edge technology
31. “You knew this was a bad idea.”
32. Giving Advice
33. Provide the direction to the answer ! Not the answer directly
34. Honesty
35. Honest about your own skills
36. Honest with their skills and progress
37. Don’t Be Mean
38. Be a Resource
39. Be a curator
40. Assignments
41. Good Assignments
42. point(x, y) ! rect(x, y, w, h, opacity, rgb, border_w, border_h, border_rgb)
43. Being an Apprentice
44. Be curious
45. Consume everything
46. Take notes
47. Apprenticeship Patterns http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001813/index.html
48. Finding a Mentor
49. Meetups! !
50. The End