Hi Anthony,
Congratulations for coming out with a useful book for Java Fraternity.
I am a Tech lead with 10 years of experience in Industry. Have a peculiar sub-ordinate who need advise on charting out his career - He is 15 years experienced on Java & .Net, Lotus Domino, and few Scripting languages including REXX. Thing is , he has got non-progressive career, since he has not got opportunities to work on New projects i.e., from the scratch coding, and always has been on Maintenance type of works and lacks motivation in knowing concepts beyond his job demands. So has never taken any training, nor learnt anything on own, nor had done any certifications. I am supposed to be his mentor, and help him chart out his next steps towards scaling up on Java technologies. I had asked him small exercises to code, which he finishes not by thinking on own but only googling and copying pasting. He will only come out with functional code that works, but is not efficient by performance, does not confirm to module design. Point is he does'nt read and learn, nor understand best practices and I see myself wasting a lot of time in making him understand basic things.
After trying out everything, I have asked him to take a call and move away from Java technologies which is not able to catch up with nor ramp up to. He is very good at mathematics, so was suggesting him get trained in Data Science, Business Analytics.
Would like to know your opinion / suggestions for such a Professional.
Thanks in advance.
Ishita