My Hacker School Pairing Interview (2013)

Hacker School is a very effective environment for someone who reflects critically about how their code works and reacts without prickliness to other people’s suggestions. At the institution’s request for a testimonial recently I described that situation and Hacker School’s effect as follows:

I came to programming after a decades-long career in a totally unrelated and non-quantitative field. Hacker School ripened me into the ways of the guild of coders: I learned how to read other people’s code, to pair-program, to ask for help in a way that was useful to myself and others; I got used to jargon, along with how and when to use it; I learned various best practices and the names of many, many tools.

Source: dpb.bitbucket.io