[jakubholynet]

I agree there is much more stuff than writing code.

> Teaching them the value of well organized source control and good commit notes goes a long way.

This is way too low level compared to what we are looking for. We want to find out how to help people learn quickly the basic values and principles that will enable then to proceed on the path towards learning how to build the right thing and how to build it right.

The question is not so much what to teach (there are great resources on that - Clean Code, Pragmatic Programmer, Effective Java, XP explained, ...) but how. And by how I mean little more concrete than "give them a mentor to help them" (we have tried that - but neither the mentor nor the mentee really know what to do).