Growing Developers: Helping Junior Developers Improve & Succeed

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Starts with a quick personal path into development and then gives concrete practices that helped a junior move from guessing to competent work including Ruby on Rails habits like moving logic out of views and write tests every time. Covers regular code reviews that praise good patterns, pair programming for problem solving, informal mentorship frequency (weekly → biweekly), tracking concrete goals, and requests for time or funding to learn.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:33My Background
3. 1:57Creating a Good Environment
4. 3:26Code Reviews
5. 5:55Pair Programming
6. 6:39Achievements
7. 7:04Planning
8. 7:44Monitoring Progress
9. 9:27Questions

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