How did you ... ? Happy Bootcamp Story 47 of 100
Imitation is a driver.
TL;DR: When a coder moves in a snappy fashion through a sequence of fixes, everyone instantly knows that it's time to up their game. They will ask "What was that keystroke?"
Nathanial asks Jean - directly
Nathanial Woodruff was in the guide role, and Jean Arnaud Tanoe was taking a turn coding.
Just watching Jean zip through a set of operations is a pleasure, all by itself. But when he had to move a block of html code up into another div he used a keystroke that made it super snappy. Niiiiiice.
"What was that keystroke?" asks the guy who was leading. Wait, who was guiding who? That's the way we roll here, everybody learns from everyone else.
AI Won't Make You Snappy
Nope. You can get AI to do a lot of things, but making your fingers move fast through a complex sequence of coding changes isn't one of them. That's still a skill thing.
The cool thing about a group coding session, even over 1-1 pair programming, is that several people might be watching when a fast coder goes to work. Once they see how fast the other guy works, now everyone wants to be just as fast. Human nature.
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Imitation is a powerful driver. I can give you a lesson, and you'll just roll your eyes. But watch Jean, and now you want to be just as skilled as he is. "That, I can do."
Culture Issues
Don't kid yourself, not every culture is going to be free enough to allow someone to feel OK about asking another how they did something in front of everybody.
There's also some tension between asking questions - and just being serious. These are adults, they didn't sign up to kill time or joke around here. Most work full time, and every hour is precious. So we're not going to ask silly questions.
How to move fast - that's something everyone is always interested in. So the culture supports that.
Self Image is Everything
If I am about to graduate from a coding bootcamp and put myself out there for interviewers to see, I want to look good.
If I can imitate what I saw Jean Arnaud Tanoe doing today, now I feel more confident, and ready to put myself out there.