Pair programming as a service

    What if it were possible at that moment when you are faced with some kind of difficult task that you haven’t been able to solve on your own for a long time (although I looked at everything that could be found in Google on this subject), go to a special site and ask anyone to see and help?

    We are talking about a theoretical opportunity to make a site for finding partners for pair programming.

    Bender and fry

    When someone needs help, he goes to the site, clicks on the “Need Help” button and describes the essence of the problem.

    For instance:

    Hello everyone, my name is Anton, I’m 12. The thing is this: a friend wrote a site, but he foolishly implemented protection against cheating in the form of voting. I want to show him the problem in action, but I just can’t figure out how to correctly use CookieJar with urllib2 in Python - seriously, some kind of confusing API. So the rest I have almost everything ready, it remains just to screw the cookies support. I will be glad if you help!

    Implementation time (approximately): 30 minutes Contact
    time: any day of the week, from 3 pm to 12 am

    python, cj, cookiejar, urllib2

    Other users, accordingly, see this request and may respond to it. Each user can indicate various information about himself - in particular, how much experience he has with various technologies. Of course, if the person to whom you helped noted that your help was useful, your reputation will improve. Also, it does not hurt the ability to leave reviews about specific developers.

    Theoretically, this may very well work. Why? Because there is stackoverflow.com and couchsurfing.org .

    Most likely, in most cases it is most convenient to use tools like TeamViewer and Skype. But if people live nearby, then they may well be engaged in pair programming live.

    So, we summarize:

    1. An opportunity to ask for help when it is not possible to do something
    2. An opportunity to once again look at the source code of other developers, and, perhaps, along the way to learn something new
    3. An opportunity to get some reputation
    4. An opportunity to begin to better navigate one’s own in programming, helping others (the best way to learn is to teach others, isn’t it?)
    5. An opportunity to chat with like-minded people (all of a sudden, your colleague is developing something that you constantly thought about a month and a half ago?)

    Very good for so a simple site. What do you think? Will do?

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    Personally, would you use such a thing?

    • 10.5% Yes, for assistance 120
    • 10.9% Yes, as an assistant 125
    • 42.1% Yes, and I would help, and I myself would ask for help 480
    • 32.2% No 367
    • 4.1% No, I'm not a developer at all 47

    Would your children become?

    • 9.9% Would Steel 103
    • 11.3% Would not become 117
    • 78.7% I have no children 814

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