As curious software professionals, the 8th Light team of software developers, designers, crafters, and technologists partner with a variety of clients to unlock opportunities through software solutions.
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Lestow
Last Updated
May 27, 2024
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Last Updated | 27 May,2024 |
Employees are very friendly and welcoming. I'm here for a camp all week and can't say enough good things about the employees showing us a nice warm welcome! 😊 …
I have to admit that at first I was surprised that it was so cheap, but since they don't require commitment I had nothing to lose. My surprise is that they have given me better SEO results (by far) than the agency I was with. Crazy, seriously. Highly recommended.
I just completed the 4-day "Object Oriented Design" training with instructors Cyrus Vandrevala and Eric Smith. o In my opinion, the most useful part of the training for me was Design Patterns and SOLID principles. However, they only covered 8 patterns and that plus the SOLID principles was fit into a couple hours. I felt that there should have been more detail provided on this -- I didn't feel like the time allotted was sufficient. You can find YouTube videos (see Christopher Okhravi for example) where ~30-60 minutes is devoted to each pattern. o Exercises (termed "code retreats", which took up approximately 2 of the 4 days) were mostly free-format work on several "from scratch" projects (Coffee machine, Payroll system, Mastermind game, Conway's Game of Life). I had hoped that exercises would target specifically what we learned in the slides – they did not. (Of course you could use what you learned if you had arrived at that answer yourself.) o While projects were in the programming language of our choice, instruction by the teachers was language-agnostic and mostly in UML. I find UML difficult to translate into C++, and I would have liked to see corresponding examples in C++ (though I do recognize this isn't the language that everyone in the class is using). o Approximately one day was devoted to software process-oriented themes such as packaging objects, pair programming, test-driven development, and mocking objects. This is useful information, however only if your organization subscribes to it. o A few other annoyances: • There was no course outline distributed – we didn’t know where the course was going at times • Exercises were only displayed on the projector (no handouts) which made it necessary for us to waste our time copying things down from the projector • No evaluation was solicited at the end of the course (hence why I am writing this review)