Thankyou. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt for the time being. But I'll take your advice for my self too. Funny I can't recall the last time I used a toolbar in vs but for some reason I've never switched them off.
On 19/07/2016 7:10 pm, "Wallace Turner" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>Yeah I reckon I must be bombarding her - I'll ease up a bit. > > I don't know all the details but someone (especially as a programmer) > should know their own shortcomings (eg, oh i can't believe i was doing it > that way!) and be doing everything possible to get up to speed otherwise I > would question the quality of the person as a programmer. > > As for addressing the problem I find learning all the resharper shortcuts > vital - not learning them by heart perhaps but going thru them one at a > time, looking at how you would normally select/highlight/refactor something > and see how much quicker it is with R# > > > https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/docs/ReSharper_DefaultKeymap_VSscheme.pdf > > Also get rid of ALL the menu bars in visual studio > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeap I like this idea. Just watching videos with lots of shortcuts gets >> old real quick. Good luck and let us know how it goes, I'm curious how it >> works out. >> >> >> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Preet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is what I've been trying to do this past week. Yeah I reckon I must >>> be bombarding her - I'll ease up a bit. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> On 19 July 2016 at 16:16, DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'd prioritise the most productive tools/keystrokes in terms of >>>> productivity and have her do some pair programming. You or someone else who >>>> sits with her can occasionally ask her to use some shortcuts. Just don't >>>> bombard her with shortcuts as she won't absorb them. One or two per pair >>>> session should help a lot. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Preet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Guys I wonder if I can ask for some advice please. >>>>> >>>>> I'm currently leading a project with a developer who originally came >>>>> from a Delphi background but has been using visual studio (C++ and C#) for >>>>> a few years now. However I'm finding that she doesn't seem to have much >>>>> experience of many of the productivity features available in modern tools >>>>> like visual studio, or the OS or office for instance. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> By these I mean even simple things like autoformating, intellisense >>>>> (well some), keystrokes to comment/uncomment, snippets, or refactoring >>>>> for >>>>> instance. I even had to teach her to do auto build on starting execution >>>>> (PF5 etc), or to use the keyboard to save or build. Things like resharper >>>>> are a pipe dream it seems. I felt as though I was doing magic incantations >>>>> when I started writing some unit tests... Nearly everything she does is >>>>> sort of 'most manual way possible" it sometimes seems. >>>>> >>>>> Now generally I'm happy to let other do it their way but I find that >>>>> her productivity is very low and I'm thinking part of it might be this >>>>> factor. I know we all have different styles, and I'm far from dictating >>>>> other use my style however I do feel that a modern developer should be >>>>> aware of the capabilities of their development environments. If her >>>>> productivity was OK I wouldn't care how she used whatever tool. >>>>> >>>>> What I'd like to do is encourage her to do some directed training that >>>>> would help her productivity and thus personal development. I've tried >>>>> putting together some Pluralsight (it's paid for by our employers so it's >>>>> always there) playlists for her, but I get the "I did some of the >>>>> training, >>>>> and then stopped to get some work done". I've been more than happy for her >>>>> to actually do the courses lowering the workload for this reason. >>>>> >>>>> I'd really like her to get the best out of her tools and not be >>>>> hamstrung. Can anyone with experience of this kind of thing tell how how >>>>> perhaps I could approach this in a more positive way please? >>>>> >>>>> Preet. >>>>> >>>> >>> >
