Building a code-review culture in the classroom
- Senior Lecturer — Software Craft
- 8 min read
Code review at IJSE is not a gate before merge — it is a classroom ritual. Students learn to read diffs, ask clarifying questions, and separate taste from correctness.
We provide lightweight rubrics: readability, test evidence, API clarity, and operational concerns like logging and error boundaries. Reviews are timed and rotated so every engineer practices both giving and receiving feedback.
The habit sticks. Graduates tell us their first PR comments at work feel familiar because they rehearsed the same tone and structure during GDSE team projects.
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