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copied!<p>Why don't you ask the students what they find difficult and make cheat sheets, lectures, etc. for the parts of the job that they have trouble with? Maybe you need to create some introductory Perl lectures or purchase some dead trees. How about a Safari subscription at O'Reilly? I'd ask the students how they prefer to learn, though, before embarking on a training project. Everyone has different learning styles.</p> <p>I'd also spend some time and capital creating a culture of professional software development at work. It'll be tough since academic programmers are often neophytes and used to kludging up solutions (I'm an academic programmer, btw) but the students will thank you in the long run. Maybe you can all go out to lunch once a week to discuss programming and other topics. You might also want to take some time to do code reviews so people can learn from each other.</p> <p>With high turnover you definitely need to ensure that knowledge transfer occurs. Make sure you are using source code control and that your students understand proper commenting. I'd also make the students create brief documentation for posterity. If they are getting credit, make them turn in a writeup of their progress once a semester. You can put this in a directory in the project's repository for anyone who inherits it. As mentioned in other posts, a group wiki can really help with knowledge transfer. We use Mediawiki in our group and like it a lot.</p> <p>One last thing I should add is that I find it helps to keep a list of projects for new developers that relatively easy and can be completed in a month or so. They are a great way for new people to get acclimated to your development environment.</p>

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