❔ Anyone experienced, would you be interested in mentoring me?
I am looking for anyone well experienced to just give me a "direction" and keep me in check.
I am not someone who is like very passionate about coding. I like it but in bits.
And I have always preferred quality over quantity though I know very well one learns the best by getting his/her hands dirty. I lack this quality.
So I was hoping if someone would be interested...please reach out 🙂
What's in it for you?
Well, I could buy you a coffee, perhaps even every week if that's okay? 😅
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I don't know that I'm particularly qualified to completely mentor someone, but I'm more than willing to answer questions, perform reviews, or give second opinions on ideas. 🙂
For free
What level would you say you're currently at? And what are your goals?
It doesn't have to be 'complete' mentoring, I mean just some advises/direction/ideas knowing my level to explore.
Review is okay.
Regarding my "ideas", I am not good with coming with ideas that would be within my capability or not. It would be great if Ideas/suggestions could come from you end. 🙂
I wish I had this quality to just google stuff, do my own researching and "doing" things and enjoying getting hands dirty and being fine dealing with the uncertainty of the thing I am doing (I am trying to work on this as well)
I consider myself somewhere between beginner and intermediate.
I work as a full stack dev.
My goal is to have quality knowledge on things of my domain.
Honestly what I've found to be the hardest part for learners is getting past the beginner stages. It's kinda hard to know where to go next once the basics are understood. It's a good idea to have a mentor to show a path
If you're already working as a dev, though, I'd think that would provide you the direction that you need to know what to work on, right?
@Relevant yeah...I have received the suggestions of building my own projects. But I am not good with coming up with something challenging yet enjoyable.
I sort of agree with this; work could just be dreadful for some and as a result they can find themselves lacking motivation to learn more about a topic that causes them agony.
Yeah, or it could just be not a lot of complex dev work, and maybe there isn't a ton of growth
With that in mind though, I always recommend that those people learn things about their current work topics that would make their life easier.
In any case, I'm willing to help out as well, but don't want to step on Hazel's toes :p
No need to worry about that 🙂
Do you have a common problem at work that just never seems to end?
At work? Umm... a common problem would be there's coming up with bad estimates and bad oral communication.
But I guess it's a normal common problem(bad estimates) for many novices.
From a code perspective
🙂
Even senior devs are bad at giving estimates
btw
I give perfect estimates. I just don't give them until I'm done with the work 😄
I personally want to get better in technical skills. Like if you guys could tell me achievable goals like "Read this new thing X" make something and comeback and show
That's kind of hard to do without a decent understanding of where you're at
Regarding code perspective, it's ending up writing messy code than planned due to coming deadlines. My seniors don't really review my code they just expect it to be working. :/
But again, that's I think is a common issue.
fwiw you aren't supposed to offer compensation for things in this discord
just letting you know before a mod yells at you
Oh, you're serious O_O
That's a rule?
What kind of application/s do you work on?
yes that's why I can tell you all about myself. Lmao
Yeah, it is a rule
web
MVC?
afaik, yes - same lines as job postings
I highly recommend studying inversion and extraction concepts for refactoring if you struggle with writing easier to follow code.
well, sir Patrick said, I could try it (I am paraphrasing here(from what I understood))
That'll give you a solid start
if you got a blessing from someone with authority then don't mind me 
I think they offered to buy coffee on the initial post lol
If you want, feel free to hit up my DMs, tell me a bit more about the technologies you're using and we can go from there
"I highly recommend studying inversion and extraction concepts for refactoring if you struggle with writing easier to follow code."
I am picking this up for this week.
MVC, web API yeah
I have a good amount of experience with both
Less MVC more API for me
this is me
I'm more framework dev
I ask basic questions 😄
umm does framework includes everything? Desktop too?
Yes
Most of my time is spent creating abstractions to support a stable foundation for consumers 🙂
I don't really ask much anymore
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My newest question lol
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I....I....want to become like this. To understand everything happening. 
nameof and "Obfuscation"?!
I have only seen them used in code examples, still not comfortable with them.
Reflection is so cool. But I still fear it.
Any particular source you would like to suggest for this?
nameof and "Obfuscation"?!
I have only seen them used in code examples, still not comfortable with them.
Reflection is so cool. But I still fear it.
Any particular source you would like to suggest for this?CodeAesthetic
YouTube
Why You Shouldn't Nest Your Code
I'm a Never Nester and you should too.
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Correction: At 2:20 the inversion should be "less than or equal", not "less than"
Solid watch on it
As far as articles, I'd have to look around
The concepts are easy to follow
But actually implementing and changing your train of thought to work that way takes a good amount of practice.
This was so relaxing to watch ❤️
Thank you.
I recently listened to a podcast by Ardalis. (You might have come across his profile)
https://ardalis.com/
He said something similar to make our methods fail fast similar to inversion.
So yeah I have touched on these topics. But as you said it will take a good amount of practice.
You can mentor anyone
The limits you put on yourselves is your business of course but once you put a limit on yourself it is hard to break out of.
Thanks for the vote of confidence 🙂 you’re absolutely correct that I shouldn’t limit myself.
I think I was trying to set expectations tbh though
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