I used to be in the office all the time. What ended up happening was that I ended up becoming a tutor and they weren't gaining the skills of an experienced prog

I used to be in the office all the time. What ended up happening was that I ended up becoming a tutor and they weren't gaining the skills of an experienced programmer. The best thing you can do is force them to look up things. It's probably even a good idea that all questions go through Skype or email because you can answer them on your own schedule; meanwhile, you force them to work for the answers. For example, I had to teach a fresh Comp Sci kid how to link to a C library several times. He had no idea how compilers or linkers worked aside from his school programming assignments. I taught him how to do this in VS and GCC Makefiles at least 3 times, and he still didn't learn it because he could turn around and ask me. I've learned you only force someone to learn when you don't provide them answers. You do yourself and that person a disservice by spoon feeding solutions.