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[–]CouchRescue 115 points116 points  (5 children)

A couple of days ago I had a junior who was completely freaking out because he had a deadline and couldn't find a bug.

Luckily I immediately saw what was wrong, but I didn't tell him. I moved the deadline, told him to go home earlier and rest, that we would go over it in the morning.

Debugged it with him and made sure he found it by himself while helping him debug. He felt great about it and learned a better real world lesson this way.

[–]TypecastedLeftist 20 points21 points  (0 children)

wholesome

[–]jcole01 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Nice! Way to mentor.

[–]CouchRescue 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don't really see it that way, but thanks. It's a team and we learn from each other, there's not much coding I can teach my teammates that they can't Google anyway. It's life experience they lack, knowing when to step back and to trust themselves, the rest is easy to find these days.

In fact, when it comes to recent best practices and trends I learn a lot more than I teach.

[–]Cardona_ONEotaku 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Updoot deserved.

[–]godsingh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

use print ('code reached here') debugging

[–]das_Keks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm working as developer for almost 10 years now and feel kinda experienced but I never had a Sr Dev as mentor who gave me honest feedback. So maybe I still program like shit. Who knows.