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MentorCruise summary
Jascha is a consultant with more than 30 years of coding experience. He has spent more than 10 years as a self-employed consultant, mentored developers for more than five years, and published over 100 technical articles. He helps developers master programming fundamentals, debug projects, and apply professional coding workflows.
Based on 21 verified mentee reviews
- Reviewers often praise his clear explanations of complex programming topics, including Python fundamentals, coursework, and debugging.
- Two reviewers mention his approachable manner, which makes it easy to ask questions and talk through challenges.
- Several reviewers value his practical teaching through coding tasks, examples, and professional best practices.
About
# BetterDev Mentorship Benefits #
> Become a better developer!
* In only 3–6 months
* 10–15 in-person sessions
* 24-hour-response chat (Mo–Fr)
* 30+ hand-crafted coding exercises
## Coding curriculum ##
- Learn **4 essential skills** for developers
- Learn **real-life coding workflows**
- Have **10 essential programming basics** covered
> Here's what you'll learn!
### Learn 4 essential skills for developers ###
> These coding “soft skills” make you a great developer!
- Mastering VS Code
- Command line proficiency
- Effective Git usage
- DevOps and virtualization
> Experience builds these skills. Get started from the get-go!
### Learn real-life coding workflows ###
> Valuable no matter what language you work in!
- Writing clean code
- Rapid prototyping in REPL
- Debugging and analysis
- Refactoring best practices
- Modeling and system design
- Solutions architecture
### Have 10 essential programming basics covered ###
> Master the basics to excel as a programmer!
1. Code, interpretation, and comments
2. Expressions, literals, and operators
3. Assignment, naming, and assert
4. Types and conditionals
5. Strings, slices, and mutability
6. Functions, parameters, and return
7. Data structures and iteration
8. Data, modeling, and mocking
9. Recursion and functional programming
10. OOP, methods, and inheritance
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# My credentials #
* 30+ years coding experience
* 20+ coding languages self-taught
* 10+ years self-employed consultant
* 5+ years coding mentor
* M.Sc. Bioinformatics
* 100+ technical articles published
> Work with me to become a better coder!
Book a free intro call right away:
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What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Jascha Silbermann has been an excellent mentor and teacher. He is patient, thoughtful, and genuinely focused on helping me develop a strong understanding of programming rather than simply showing me how to get to the right answer. One of the things I appreciate most is his teaching style. He gives me space to explain my thinking, test ideas and assumptions in the command line, and work through problems before stepping in. Our discussions help me identify what I truly understand and where there are gaps in my reasoning. Jascha also creates his own problems and exercises for me based on what we are working on. His focus goes beyond simply teaching Python syntax-he emphasizes how to think through problems, understand why something works, and develop concepts and problem-solving skills that can transfer to other programming languages. He gives clear, useful feedback, encourages questions and discussion, and is responsive when I post questions or comments between sessions. I would highly recommend Jascha to anyone looking for a patient, engaged mentor who cares about developing both your technical skills and your ability to think independently as a programmer
Louis
Standard Plan • 3 months
5 out of 5 stars
Jascha has been enormously helpful to me. His skillset and approach is a great fit for my mentoring needs. A+ all around.
William
Lite Plan • 1 month
4 out of 5 stars
Jascha is a fantastic mentor 👌 He’s highly responsive, thoughtful, and his answers always feel well-considered. Not only to specific questions, or helping troubleshoot issues, but also in understanding where I'm at in my learning, picking up on the gaps, and providing genuinely helpful guidance and support.
Yael
Lite Plan • 8 months
Get to know Jascha
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Article 5 min readJascha Silbermann – Meet the Mentor
My name is Jascha Silbermann, and I’m a self-employed consultant from Berlin with 30+ years of coding experience. I specialize …
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What happens when you start
You tell Jascha your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Jascha reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
