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Being at my 4th development internship (as part of my schooling) There are 3 pieces of advice i would give you. 1)Ask as many questions as you need, but find t
by stevenameyer 14y ago
Being at my 4th development internship (as part of my schooling) There are 3 pieces of advice i would give you.
1)Ask as many questions as you need, but find times that don't interfere with others too much. Your an intern, they understand that you are learning and expect to help in your learning process, especially since this is your first. As long as your not bugging everyone every minute you should be fine.
2) Read files in the codebase as much as possible. Someone mentions a bug in a file at a stand up? Go read the file. Someone mentions a funny comment made is one of the files? Go read the file. Slow day and you don't know what to do? Read as many files as possible. The first time you get access to a large codebase it can overwhelming, but the more you sit down and become familiar with each file, you will become more and more familiar with it. There is no replacement for just sitting down and becoming friends with the codebase.
3) Out work everyone. In my opinion the way you overcome a lack of knowledge is by putting the work and time in. If it takes you twice as long to do something but you work for twice as long per day you end up with the same output. Now this is an unrealistic example but you get the idea. If you are an intern and out work everyone, you will impress.
- salahxanadu 14y agoGreat info. Reading code is one of the most basic and fundamental things to do to learn new systems and languages. Please note your != you're.