This is where we carry out the plan from the first step. This can take a lot of different forms depending on where the student is and what they need.
This is a common type of meeting when the student is stuck on something they’ve been working on and are trying to figure out how to get things working again. This is a great opportunity to pair program on debugging skills, walking through the problem solving steps together. Sometimes as a mentor you’ll know what the problem is right away, and sometimes you’ll be just as stumped as the student, but either way walking through a debugging process is very helpful. The process might look like this:
- Have them describe their understanding of the problem and what they’ve tried so far to resolve it.
- Confirm the problem together and have them walk through recreating it slowly to confirm that what they think is the problem is actually the problem (it often isn’t).