mentor

How do solo programmers find people to mentor them through new technology?

I've been working at home for some time now and though I can often find answers -- and the occasionally terrific walkthrough article -- I haven't found a way to either hire or solicit the services of a "mentor." By that I mean someone who can: walk me through an implementation so that I understand what I'm doing, determine flaws in my ...

Final Year MS Project / Enhancement of existing project by collaborative working

I am a final year MS Student and want to do a major project in computer science (preferred langauge is C++) Can you please share project ideas and related pointer for same...? If some one has already done some project and would like to enhance that by collaborative work...do let me know.... ...

What made it "click"

For me, I would have to say things really started to "click" after I read Fowler's Refactoring book. Craftsmanship was not something that I was thought in academia. Most of my coursework taught language features, object oriented concepts, and theoretical stuff. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code provided examples of "s...