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# Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: A New Dev’s Guide to Navigating Unfamiliar Codebases


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 13:00–13:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Virtual Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

Onboarding to a new project can be difficult, no matter your background and experience. But it can be especially challenging for new developers straight out of school or a coding bootcamp. Drawing on my personal experience as a bootcamp grad and JavaScript consultant, this talk will discuss strategies for new developers to quickly get their bearings in an unfamiliar codebase. 

Attendees are promised this: whether you are a newer dev, an experienced dev, a manager, or anywhere in between, you will walk away with at least 1 concrete tip to try the next time that you are onboarding to a new project, or helping someone else to do so. 

## Speaker

### [Andrew Coleburn](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@andrew-coleburn)

Developer Consultant and React Department Culture Lead @ Bitovi


## Related talks at this congress

- [Developer Tested, Educator Approved](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/438-developer-tested) — Andrew MacLean, MetzinAround
- [Supercharge Your Developer Journey with Tiny Atomic Habits](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/208-supercharge-your) — Natan Silnitsky
- [Everything as Code: A Dozen As-Code Concepts beyond Infrastructure or Configuration as Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/102-everything-as-code-a) — Jose Javier Alonso Moya
- [Specifications as the better way of software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/197-specifications-as) — Artem Manchenkov