We just got an intern in our company a few days ago. She is supposed to be a php developer, not good, but at least something okay. I find major errors, that even a newbie should regocnize.
It's going to be a long internship, if I have to help her all the time with basic stuff.

May I ask you what a php intern should be able to do to be considered good? I ask because one day I could be in her position

She tried to get the users information at the login page, but before we even validated it and actually got the data. Right over the line where we validate and store the users information, she tried to get something from that variable.

Have no idea on how that happened, but I think that should be really basic to read the code and see that it doesn't work in that order.

@SpeedyCate it could be basic thing to detect, but remember this: You think like a coder/dev ....etc. she doesn't, teach her how to think and how things are linked. In her case, code will not help her at all and she will stay as noob as she is now (no offense meant) So better do:

1. Teach her how to scan the file

2. Teach her how to build the logic on paper/or what you guys use

3. Teach her how to search even if she fails to find the solution

Not sure though, you are the one training her, you know what exactly is her weakness, but I'd start with these

@gitpush I do also teach her :) But she should have that knowledge already from her school. I hope it's just because she haven't been coding in a long time and it'll get better.

I try my best to be positive and go through the code with her and also learn her the stuff she's failing at in hope she'll learn at least something from me :P

@SpeedyCate she will my friend, she is in safe hands 😀

If she's just an intern she's there to learn that these kind of things don't happen one day on her full time job. Give her some slack, nobody was born smart. You'd be surprised how many times I've seen employees fuckup in a lot harder ways than this.

@gitpush @SpeedyCate I don't think they teach you how to think in school (any school) or how to learn by yourself. And this is a huge problem, not just with IT & cs classes..
From my experience you either just know this stuff or you're fucked irl. I tried to teach 'my intern' how to properly debug stuff, to checklogs, what is important/relevant info, where to look etc.. just this morning he sent out a screenshot with a line from event viewer that didn't even had event error id... :/

@sladuled damn.... this is bad :/

@gitpush yup.. like I mentioned in another rant..might quit smoking once I no longer have to put up with this.. :/
Everyone makes mistakes & blunders..but you have to own it & learn from it.. but not this guy..oblivious to everything.. How he finished schooling is beyond me..o.O

@sladuled He better think of a different domain. All I can say is good luck handling this type of people :)

@gitpush thanks!
I'm not even sure why he chose this occupation.. desire for knowledge & some internal fire are deffo out of the question..

@sladuled only time will tell I guess ...