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A comment on Lambda School’s Misleading Promises. Parent comment

Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises by baron816 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @05:34PM (#22370837)
I tried to do something similar, but more as a mentoring program. I’ve been thinking about trying to do that with my company (having us mentor people outside the company—as a recruiting tool).

One thing I suggest is focus on code reviews for your students. I think that’s the best way to tech programming. They’ve already taken a stab at something, so writing comments on how it can be done better and why that way is better is much more useful than a lecture about something abstract.

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Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises by songzme on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:11PM (#22371131)
You nailed it. I focus on code reviews and I agree that its the best way to teach programing. It teaches them how to structure their code to be maintainable. Just getting it to work is not good enough, you have to think about the engineer who is going to take over your code one day.
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