Questions tagged [training]
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How do I measure the effectiveness of training for a new software testing tool?
Creating an effective training plan for a new testing tool involves the following key step: Decide on the training duration. A short session is more effective than a long one.
How do I measure the ...
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Evolving thought process and design thinking [closed]
I'm working as a software developer for around 8 years now and have worked with mostly companies offering outsourcing services.The challenge so far was mostly - learn the new tech, showcase through a ...
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Novice programmer(s) frustrated by lack of a glossary of compiler errors
A friend of my family asked me for a bit of help as he learns to program (in the C language). As we were talking, he expressed frustration about having a hard time understanding the error messages his ...
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How to determine ROI on developer training?
I've been a proponent for training on our team since I've started with a new company. I'm dealing with two newer technologies now and my peers have given me their opinion that additional training ...
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Newly formed team who are unfamiliar with the platform and domain how to get them up to speed?
I have been assigned as the lead dev of a newly formed team. I am the only person familiar with the software platform we will be using and the only person to have worked in this domain before. There ...
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Good unit-testing story for a unit test training [closed]
I have to advise a training on unit testing in my company.
I would like to show a striking, real-life example of an unexpected regression not caught by compilation (of course) but detectable with ...
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What are the most crucial categories of content to organize into an internal developer portal in a large company? [closed]
I have been tasked with organizing all of the company's internal content currently spread around sharepoint, a markdown reference manual and confluence into a single cohesive and usable portal in ...
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Stopping developers committing to the wrong branch on DVCS
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I am on a software project which has about 10 developers, we share source code via Mercurial. We have a development and production branch per release. Repeatedly during the course of the ...
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Should we persist with an employee still writing bad code after many years? [closed]
I am putting this question to C++ programmers because:
a) Only a C++ programmer can judge the technical merits of the examples;
b) Only a programmer will have a feel for the temperament of another ...
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How to train junior programmers for today's (complicated) web environment?
Currently our company develops applications consisting, most of the time, in Ruby on Rails web servers and a bunch of different REST clients, from kiosk systems in Java to embedded devices in C/C++ (...
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How Do I Determine the Value of a Technical book? [closed]
I'm interested in finding more books like The Pragmatic Programmer. Rather than the run of the mill, technology-specific books that are out of date by the time they go to press. Can you provide advice ...
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Teaching myself, as a physicist, to become a better programmer [closed]
I've always liked physics, and I've always liked coding, so when I got the offer for a PhD position doing numerical physics (details are not relevant, it's mostly parallel programming for a cluster) ...
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What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?
Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up ...
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How do you break out of the role of a code maintainer? [closed]
In my last three jobs, I was a code maintainer. In all three cases, I was hired after the majority of the code for the project was already written.
I'm a self taught programmer. Before I ever started ...
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How many juniors should a senior mentor? [closed]
Our shop's size increases dynamically, so we are planning to hire a few new junior developers but we would not like to overwhelm the seniors with too much mentoring and training. How many (usually ...
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