New dev, old codebase: A series of mentorship stories
summary
Mentorship here centers on concrete wins: learning Ruby on Rails and Mac OS X tooling from a loaned Big Nerd Ranch book leads to paid freelance work; practical git skills like git rebasing and bisecting become routine; a three-month Rails Girls Summer of Code yields shipped projects and global Hangouts; teaching kids builds a mini game and uncovers CRT history explaining top-left coordinates; outcomes include mentees later using Unreal Engine and offered one‑on‑one sessions scheduled via Calendly.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 3:41Freelance Mac OS X developer'
- 18:32Effective communication
- 22:35Coding Styles
- 25:50Giving constructive feedback
- 39:46PRACTICAL OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN
- 49:28Start a community of practise!
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