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I've done this for money a couple times, and informally for a few friends. (Plus, a bit more regularly lately as a student at Hacker School, which you ought to check out.) When I did it for money, both clients were appreciative, but I think it went better with the one I'd previously written a lot of their backend code for, who were also well-heeled. This gave me specific knowledge and more time to give them. (I could…
I've been a mentor on there for ages and I've "mentored" several people - probably around 7 or 8. The reason I put quotation marks around "mentored" is because of all the people who have applied to be mentored with me, only one has actually applied themselves to the task at hand and consistently requested feedback and guidance.
As a result, that was really the only rewarding mentorship interaction I've had via that site, which is a bit disappointing. One of my colleagues signed up too, years ago when that site launched, and I think he's had better luck; he has a postcard on the wall near his desk from someone he successfully mentored in China.
The reason I bring this up is because I think anyone who wants to be mentored must realize that the relationship goes both ways: you want a good mentor, but your mentor in turn wants a good student - and anything less than that is disrespectful.
Since "coding" itself is a huge field, just be sure you pick a project that interests you and has a lot of scope instead of $random_famous_opensource_project.
Good Luck :)
We're still in alpha stage, but the idea is to solve challenges and get feedback and reviews from more experienced programmers.
I have to do just that to help the kids along, to learn, to fix small things and generally become more independent.
I love it.
I've often thought about doing this. I have been coding for a LONG time, and during that time I, like most programmers, have learned through others and experience that the practical lessons that are difficult or impossible to teach in more formal settings (and that includes the usual training programs that companies put their new recruits through) are much easier explained in a one-on-one setting, often at the whiteb…
Apart from the areas in which I know I'm deficient, I also want to uncover the unknown unknowns in my coding, since I am self taught and have doubtless developed poor habits along the way without even realising it.
Internships. Find a great company w/ top-notch developers who aren't too stuck up or arrogant to give proper advice.
Tutors w/o industry experience are useless. And virtually no one with the experience will do the tutoring outside the work.
My employer does this in-house, by pairing a programmer up with a more experienced programmer or architect in roughly the same field, and having them review the programmer's work on a regular basis. I bet there's many firms with a system somewhat like this. That said, if your team does peer code reviews, you get a lot of that coaching that you ask for, directly from your team members. In fact, if your workplace doesn…