My brother has been asking me to teach him more on SQL. I agreed telling him we can schedule a one-on-one tutorial when we visit my parents’ house next week. He then started telling me that his current on-the-job training focuses on Visual Studio projects. (His instructors build on the students’ low language skills then moving into the visual languages later.) We started talking about work experiences. Since on his college projects, one developer codes one at a time, he wonders how it works when project tasks are divided among several team members.

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