Instructions

1. Pair up with a trainee and work on a kata together
2. Trainees should explain their thought process, plan out what to do, write the code and check it works
3. As a volunteer, you will need to ask questions to check understanding, provide guidance if they get stuck, give honest and meaningful feedback

🧭 Guidance

• Don’t take over! It’s important trainees get used to figuring things out. Provide guidance and assistance but trainees need to struggle to overcome any obstacles with understanding and technical communication
• Give honest feedback. Trainees can’t develop if they don’t receive honest feedback about their progress.
• Ask questions. Sometimes asking a clarifying question can help learners discover errors and often promotes more thoughtful responses.
• Encourage best practices. Reinforce good practices like reading error messages carefully sessions and checking documentation.

Why are we doing this?

Pair programming is an excellent way to develop programming and communication skills. It is often much easier to work through something when working on something 1 to 1. It is also helps our trainees to prepare for technical interviews when they’ll need to code in front of other people.

Acceptance criteria

• You have pair programmed with at least one trainee for 45 mins

Prerequisites

1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

1. Check the success page for the self evaluate module
2. If there’s still anything you’re unsure about on the success page, ask a member of the community for support in checking your understanding

Why are we doing this?

It is really important to check you’ve understood the module as you go along. You can use the success page as a checkpoint to review your understanding.

Acceptance criteria

• You have met all the learning objectives for the self evaluate module

Prerequisites

1. Attend an in-person Saturday class

Instructions

1. Speak to some volunteers for support in identifying a pull request that needs reviewing.
2. Pair up with a volunteer and review the pull request together.

Why are we doing this?

Code review is essential for trainees to make progress. We need volunteers to regularly provide feedback so trainees can develop their skills and respond to critical feedback.

Acceptance criteria

• You have reviewed at least one PR