At my current clientco, there are a bunch of graduate developers who are causing my a lot of headaches. They are smart guys (and a girl) but do not have a clue how to design components. Some of the howlers i have seen today pushed me over the edge and i pulled the team-leader up on it.
He is a nice guy and a great man-manager but totally inept when it comes to filling the role of lead-architect (which he has nicely palmed off on me for no more $$$). We had a team meeting about my concerns and one of the graduates explained that they had only been taught how to program at uni, and not how to design the system and asked for recommendations of reading material, at which point i was a bit stumped.
I read code compete, Go4 when i was a graduate, but also had a superb senior dev who pulled me up on every mistake i made. Unfortunately i can't see this guy doing that, and many of these graduates are getting off to the wrong start. Can anyone recommend any reading or online courses on how to structure code and components?
He is a nice guy and a great man-manager but totally inept when it comes to filling the role of lead-architect (which he has nicely palmed off on me for no more $$$). We had a team meeting about my concerns and one of the graduates explained that they had only been taught how to program at uni, and not how to design the system and asked for recommendations of reading material, at which point i was a bit stumped.
I read code compete, Go4 when i was a graduate, but also had a superb senior dev who pulled me up on every mistake i made. Unfortunately i can't see this guy doing that, and many of these graduates are getting off to the wrong start. Can anyone recommend any reading or online courses on how to structure code and components?
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