Welcome back to a new post at thoughts-on-cpp. This time I will write about something different, not quite technical and C++ related. Well, not exactly. It’s a post about team education, about how to evolve the C++ knowledge of a team which is, in my case, not build up with computer science experts, but purely with domain experts (in my development team we are all mechanical engineers or mathematicians). You may ask, why the hell are they doing software engineering only with domain experts? This will be for sure another blog post, I promise, to talk about this.
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Sometimes it seems to me that tools are getting too important. Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate those little helpers modern IDE’s and their plugins are offering. For example if they’re suggesting to me a method might be rather static instead of const. Or not all paths of a lengthy, chained and nested If statement are returning something. Especially with legacy code those tools are very helpful.
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