Introducing my Apprentices: James and Richard
Recently, each of the three most experienced craftsmen at Eden has taken on one or two other developers under their wing as apprentices. These guys are all valuable and established members of the team, but we’re wanting to push them really hard so they can truly shine.
My apprentices are James Hunt and Richard Patching, both excellent and talented developers who joined Eden straight from university in 2007 and 2008 respectively. They’ve gained a lot of experience and skills already, and I’m really looking forward pushing them far beyond their comfort zones to be the best software craftsmen they can be.
They’ll both be blogging about their experiences: this blog will carry their posts also in the future. Mentoring others is not something I’ve done explicitly before, so I also intend to blog occasionally about lessons learned.
James and Richard’s first task was to present a software kata implementing the Binary Chop algorithm in Ruby and RSpec, using Test Driven Development to find a solution. They have two weeks to prepare. I’ll let you know how it goes…