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There's small things you miss out when mentoring someone remotely. I learned a lot from how my seniors would use shortcuts for everything, the way they'd arrang
by muzani 5y ago
There's small things you miss out when mentoring someone remotely. I learned a lot from how my seniors would use shortcuts for everything, the way they'd arrange windows on the monitor, which tabs they kept open, and the way files were arranged.
Even when I mentor juniors, often I see them struggling with an unclosed bracket and tell them to CTRL+ALT+L or CTRL+B to jump into a method. You can learn all this in courses, but sometimes it's not clear what you haven't learned.
- u801e 5y agoI think a lot of people eventually come up with a workflow that works for them rather than copying others. As for keyboard shortcuts, I've found that there are certain people who will continue to use repetitive keystrokes without ever considering there's a quicker way to accomplish what they're doing and others will spend time learning the keyboard shortcuts, macro usage, regular expressions, etc to make themselves more efficient regardless of whether they've been mentored or not.
- dv_dt 5y agoIf the org does remote pair programming that kind of thing does get transferred.