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I believe she had a good intention but her idea is not good at all. The Socratic Method is a fantastic way to trigger a health conversation about a topic withou
by rogercafe 4y ago
I believe she had a good intention but her idea is not good at all.
The Socratic Method is a fantastic way to trigger a health conversation about a topic without forcing a "senior" idea over a "junior".
In my experience, asking someone to explain their intention behind a piece of code is a good way to:
1) Help the individual validate that the code is communicating their intentions
2) Discover if there is an different angle that the individual is not considering
3) Discover that the individual has actually produced a "good enough" quality and a risk/benefit analysis can be made with more information.
- spc476 4y agoAlan Kay spent the early part of his career explaining his ideas via The Socratic Method [1]. How, he spends his career yelling at us for failing to come to his conclusions. What, exactly, is wrong with "I think the current name of this function fails to encapsulate what it does. I think openRequest() would be a better name." [1] At least, that's how it comes across when reading a lot of his articles.