>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>

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