Keynote: Growing Better Programmers

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Advocates using code reviews as primary mentoring tool and shows a real bug: a hand-rolled recursive rotate that never increments its write index, fixed and simplified by swapping, while recommending replace custom rotate with std::rotate and turn it into a template for reuse. Recommends teams of about six members, dedicated mentoring time (weekly slots or Friday-afternoon bug fixes), track estimates and errors (Jira or similar), measure improvement, and expand community involvement via open source and conference speaking.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:02Growing Better Programmers
3. 5:56Open Source Project Volunteer Services
4. 12:16Leading a Team of Programmers
5. 13:25Typical Career Path of Programmers and Managers
6. 13:59First Exposure to Programming
7. 15:54Abstraction
8. 17:00Engineering Is Programming Integrated over Time
9. 17:24What Happens if Somebody Stops Maintaining the Library
10. 17:47Testability Verification
11. 18:54Domain Leadership
12. 20:45How You Grow Better Programmers
13. 21:52Ideal Team Size
14. 24:33The Lead Engineer Job
15. 26:30How Can Employers Improve the Workplace
16. 32:14Code Reviews
17. 33:47Did You Choose Your Best or Your Worst Code
18. 34:04Code Responsibility
19. 34:28Who Has Played Total War
20. 40:01Do You Favor a Single Point of Exit
21. 43:53Clarity of Intent
22. 44:41Swap Specialization
23. 44:52Swap
24. 52:59How Do You Make Your Engineers Better at Estimating How Long It Can Take To Complete Their Task Tracking
25. 54:52Rules for Estimation
26. 56:30If You Want To Grow Better Programmers Tell Them To Start Solving a Problem with Estimation
27. 57:46Software Engineering Is Programming Integrated over Time
28. 1:00:21Are There Apis Easy To Use Correctly and Hard To Use Incorrectly
29. 1:03:36Public Speaking Career
30. 1:12:32Pair Programming
31. 1:17:51Remote Mentoring
32. 1:18:38How Does One Better Help People Who Keep Bringing the Same Mistakes To Code Review
33. 1:20:24What Would You Say Is the Single Most Important Thing You Have Learnt through Your Career

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