Mentoring a new developer

Since March 2022, I have been actively mentoring a new developer who is trying to break into the world of web development. She has started with the #100Devs curriculum, and now we are working through practical ways to get hands-on experience in the web development world.

Currently, we have weekly check-in meetings where we can talk about successes and difficulties from the past week, as well as set up specific goals to achieve in the coming week. We also do some hands-on instruction if there is a topic that is unclear, but that's only needed on occasion, since my mentee is learning really, really quickly on her own!

In between the meetings, we have created a learning path that will guide her explorations outside of the 100Devs curriculum. One of her goals is to become a front-end web developer, and then dive into back-end development to eventually become full-stack, so we have built this learning path from the ground-up to align with this (and other) goals, as well as the time-frame that she's looking to achieve all of this within.

If anyone reading this has considered trying out mentorship, know that it is well worth the time you put in! The world of software needs more mentors who want to bring people into the profession, so why not you?