It depends. A person who doesn’t want to learn doesn’t pick up either, in my experience. On the other hand, having a style guide helps in coding, and it helps e

It depends. A person who doesn’t want to learn doesn’t pick up either, in my experience. On the other hand, having a style guide helps in coding, and it helps everyone express ideas using a uniform style and idiom, which enables a lot of implicit communication via the code itself. Training people would entail pointing to the style guide. A big caveat is that you need a team or larger organization where this has already been set up, and that the hires need to be the kind of people who can take direction. It will fail miserably if even one of the above is untrue.