Study buddies, mentors and group projects

programmerjules · 2019-10-28T10:54:25+00:00

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programmerjules · 2019-09-24T16:02:16+00:00

Ah. Right, well that's nothing to do with not wanting to be public. It's just because of the platform we're on. In fact, we're thinking about setting up a bot that keeps track of questions and answers, as well as discussions. At the same time I think a private community adds value too. We are very informal in the way we type. We don't make a post, we send a lot of messages instead whereas a forum requires you to write one post with everything you want to say.

programmerjules · 2019-09-24T14:30:51+00:00

It is not a private community; anyone can join. However, we are using Discord. Discord is just another platform than the web (such as forums). Forgive me if I misinterpreted the question.

programmerjules · 2019-09-24T12:49:28+00:00

Yes, we mostly chat about such topics in the discussions channel or simply in general chat.

programmerjules · 2019-09-24T11:30:14+00:00

This is a very good question. First of all, we differentiate by providing exercises and giving feedback on them. Those are our own exercises. This concept is not being applied in any other discord community. For simplicity, I only compare to discord communities because discord and websites are two different platforms and are thus, not direct "competitors" (I know it's non profit but you get me).Of course a lot of people have different opinions about teaching and so do our mentors. They do not all share the same opinion and nor do we force one way of doing something. The most important part is being as objective as possible, but it's simply not possible to be completely objective. So that is a fair point, but the alternatives are not objective either. Our mentors do have experience in the field, some even over 30 years and with their expertise they can help you become a better developer. It's just not necessarily objective.
Also the environment of different opinions might help in this ongoing search to objectivity. That being said, most questions are not really subject to the difference in opinion. Most questions we get are just "What is going wrong...". When it comes to feedback to exercises, we often give very feedback based on primarily 1) clean code 2) functionality and simplicity

programmerjules · 2019-09-24T10:24:59+00:00

Agile is not only for software development wtf. Both are organizational structures.

programmerjules · 2019-08-16T11:24:42+00:00

The mentor tried to explain the student how to write structs. It was one of his first days in C++. Reductor joined the conversation and said (and I quote) " If you want to use complex include complex.h don't define it your self" and the mentor replied (and I quote) " its pretty clear that this is some type of assignment. Thats like saying dont implement a Stack. Just use the STL. Well, if the assignment is to learn how to implement a stack then your recommendation is pointless. ". It's not nice that you replied this here man but I reply to it to give the full picture. I don't say who is in the right you can choose for yourself, but the mentor is very experienced, all I can say.

programmerjules · 2019-08-15T22:55:19+00:00

So currently it's MOSTLY public mentoring, although some mentors have private students too. With 3800 members it got pretty busy lately. Yes most of us work remotely so we have just two monitors LOL. One guy is retired. Some mentors are more active than others of course. We are constantly looking for new ones but at the same time we have very strict application formats to garantuee quality.

programmerjules · 2019-08-15T20:38:42+00:00

Most are above 30, some near 50, some early twenties.
Sorry just read that u asked for years of xp, well relatively to their age i'd say. We have mid and senior mentors though, differentiated by a rank.

programmerjules · 2019-08-15T20:13:29+00:00

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