Starting a thread: pin the right questions
summary
A practical mentoring recipe emerges: pick tools (uses React), pin very specific questions, and force beginners to write the minimal math first on paper; the process produces a working fabric-amount calculator that iterates through architecture, code review, and docs. The claim is that asking and refining low-level questions speeds learning and planning; result is concrete — a usable app that reports about two meters of material for a sample garment.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:24About me
- 0:58What I wanted
- 1:35I failed
- 2:22I needed a mentor
- 2:54Examples
- 4:30Summary
- 5:27Mentorship
- 7:29Hidden questions
- 8:13Ask your mentee
- 8:53Why be a mentor
- 9:48The result
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