I am considering creating an online mentoring program for everybody who would like to start to code or improve coding skills, especially in the UI field.
I would like to know do you know of such sites or programs already. What do you think of the idea?
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@starbist I think it could work. Not sure if your read this excellent post as he mentions that mentoring is usually not something formal that happens on on specific intervals (i.e. 2 times a week) and I tend to think this is true.
While realtime communication when mentoring is nice (chat or voice or video call) it might not always be possible and I believe it can still work. You can email your mentor a conceptual or structure problem or any problem in his/her field of expertise and get a great guidance/resources asynchronously !!
@giorgosk thanks for the link, it is beneficial.
And this is exactly what I mean. Real-time communication is what I would base my program on. But still collecting ideas on how to do that.
the right answer is 42
now a more helpful question for you:
what is the easiest way for you personally to get started?
is it locally, online or a mix of both?
once you have your intuition, follow it and see what happens
Absolutely, I have little doubt. Even with just text chat it would work, even more so if you add video chat to the mix (not even necessarily all of the time, just occasionally).
Yes, definitely would work. I've seen online chat communities around the same concept. Forgot their names, but I've seen them linked in programming subreddits. One site I do remember is codingcoach.io.
Personally, I like in-person mentoring but the reach is far lower than remote. So it really comes down to your goal and what you want to achieve. If it were me, I'd try to find other existing communities out there first and see if I can help those instead.
This is something that I have been looking for. I have been a solo dev for years, and my only mentor is Google, it would be great to have a place to go for some mentoring, also as a now would consider my self a mid level programmer I would in interested in doing some mentoring my self.
Yep, absolutely, if well executed.
I have a mentor and we meet each other only once or twice per month. The rest of the time we just exchange messages and emails, rarely video calls, but it makes wonders to me anyhow.
I'd say that it would definitely work. As a matter of fact, once I had a mentor, whose mentor was located in a different continent.
One of the most important elements of mentoring, is to actually "match" with the mentor. From my point of view, a mentorship relationship works when both persons match, there needs to be some kind of "chemistry" so that the whole thing works. (Note: I don't mean like romantic matching obviously!)
So, under this perspective, the initial encounters could be focused on figuring out if both persons match, how the whole thing will be set up, how often to meet, goals, and so on.
Then the rest might come easier :)
codingcoach.io
Yes actually even on this site there are a lot of people looking for mentor.. ;)
Yes. That alone is by and large why Junior Devs choose and swear by coding bootcamps.