On 7/19/2017 3:48 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
Code reviews and code standards are your friend.
I agree.
I don't think that I'm a good programmer because of code reviews, or
shop standards. I don't think I'm a good programmer because I know RPG.
I think I'm a good programmer because my path took me through places
where I was able to learn and use code in multiple languages, on
multiple platforms.
I don't think that many of us got that opportunity, and so remain in a
place where we're comfortable with the first thing we learnt, and it's
good enough that we aren't forced to do something different.
The Dreyfus model might be interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition
Or perhaps the software-specific variant:
http://www.wayland-informatics.com/The%20Seven%20Stages%20of%20Expertise%20in%20Software.htm
The only answer that I know of is to get a mentor (could be RPG
Summit?), set aside time to tutor, have the learner work on an actual
production project. With 100% management support. 'Yep, Alice's
project will be getting an extra month tacked on so she can learn about
XMLPARSE and integrate it'.
There may be other answers but my path hasn't taken me there. Yet.
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