June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 15m
English
| Practice 7 | Spread Your Skills |
In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.
I learned a surprising lesson back in the mid 2000s. A conference I was attending had organized a room where programmers who were just starting out could pair with more experienced attendees. I went in for a couple of hours; at that point I was most likely one of the western world’s most experienced Ruby programmers. It would be good to bestow nuggets of wisdom on some lucky students.
In those couple of hours I probably learned more about programming than I had in the previous two years. After half-a-dozen years of programming Ruby, I’d settled into a style that worked for me; I attacked problems in the same way, and I used the same ...
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