Ruby Rogues

271 RR Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have and Hidden Tradeoffs to Coding Decisions Developers Have to Make with Justin Weiss

August 03, 2016
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Episode 271

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271 RR Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have and Hidden Tradeoffs to Coding Decisions Developers Have to Make with Justin Weiss

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01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction
02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”?
02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have
04:35 - Learning New Things
08:05 - What is a success?
09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do?
15:43 - Are there still “Architects”?
20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development
22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students
26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots?
33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together
37:03 - Learning Practices
 
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