Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by kelnos on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:32PM
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> You only like to work with experienced engineers, who are already experienced with the specific tooling you use on your projects fine.
That's not what I said at all. Inexperienced in general is fine. I benefited from mentorship earlier in my career, and I'm happy to pay it forward.
Inexperienced with my specific tooling is a weird point to make, because it directly contradicts my point. If you teach people how things work: the underlying computer, OS, system libraries, and teach people the nuts and bolts of how to do their jobs: version control, the command line, filesystems, etc., then I especially don't care if they've used my specific tooling before, because they probably have enough foundational and background knowledge to be able to pick up different tooling and languages without too much trouble.
The people who are just taught to open an IDE, click "new project", and never leave the IDE, are the kinds of people that I expect will have trouble if they join my team and we're using different tooling than they're used to.
That's not what I said at all. Inexperienced in general is fine. I benefited from mentorship earlier in my career, and I'm happy to pay it forward.
Inexperienced with my specific tooling is a weird point to make, because it directly contradicts my point. If you teach people how things work: the underlying computer, OS, system libraries, and teach people the nuts and bolts of how to do their jobs: version control, the command line, filesystems, etc., then I especially don't care if they've used my specific tooling before, because they probably have enough foundational and background knowledge to be able to pick up different tooling and languages without too much trouble.
The people who are just taught to open an IDE, click "new project", and never leave the IDE, are the kinds of people that I expect will have trouble if they join my team and we're using different tooling than they're used to.