When you bring in a developer to switch projects or help with an existing codebase, it’s important to recognize the time and effort required to get up to speed. Familiarizing oneself with a coding project is not just about reading lines of code—it’s about building a mental map of the project’s structure, flow, and purpose.…

Introduction: The Hidden Struggle of Coders If you’re a programmer, you’ve likely been there: staring at a screen full of code, wrestling with a complex bug, and wondering how you even got hired. Maybe you’ve thought, I’m not as smart as everyone thinks I am or Any day now, they’re going to realize I don’t belong here. That creeping…