On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:

Good internships should get you this too. Or you could join and contribute to a free software project online. It's easier to get mentorship when you're actually working with them.

@Joseph, by the time a student is ready for internship or good enough to contribute to a software project online, they are already good enough.

But there is that stage from the moment a programmer is born (figuratively speaking), to the moment they are good enough to get an internship or contribute to an open source project. It is at this stage where, I theorize, that programmer mortality rate is at its highest.

And it is at this stage that mentorship would have the most efficacy.