Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Thu, 14 Apr 2005Looking for Stories of Young Apprentices Today I had the pleasure to have a long IM conversation with Steve Baker, a young bluenoser who, after 14 years of programming, still considers himself an apprentice. It was an enlightening conversation. Steve had a lot of ideas about the apprenticeship pattern language I'm developing and many of his stories tied together several of the patterns.The theme of the conversation was the idea that someone can be an exceptional programmer (relative to the industry) and still consider himself an apprentice (compared to a master craftsman). This concept cuts across several of the apprenticeship patterns, but shares the most with Accurate Self Assessment. Anyway, I'm looking to speak with other people who consider themselves to be apprentices. Particularly young people. I'm targeting these patterns at teenagers and college students. I want to hear about the stories of young apprentices as they're living them out. So if you know if anyone who fits that description, please have them contact me. [/craftsmanship] permanent link A Thread of Patterns (upon further review) Pat notes that the sequence of the thread of patterns that I threw together didn't fit for him chronologically. This made me realize that I didn't intend for them to be read chronologically. I sort of just arbitrarily threw them together and wrote about them in that sequence.The next time I do that, I'll put a bit more thought into the ordering. It really should be chronological, as Pat assumed. |
