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How to do code reviews to people whose programming skills are weak?
Even if someone is a bad coder, reviewing other code is a teaching experience for them. … Alternate between reviewing the worst code, which should fetch lots of comments, and your code, which should raise lots of questions ("Why did you do it that way? What does that line do?"). …
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When I need to constructively criticize someone's code, what can I do to "soften the blow" a...
Find some examples and discuss, so that he can see that just reading existing code is a good way to learn, and that he should learn from existing code. … This is often an easier divide-n-conquer than bisecting the code with comments. …