by Leah Wynn | Jan 8, 2018 | Apprenticeship, Brain science, Growth, Learning, Reflections, Software apprentice, Teams
At Greater Sum, we use the Clifton Strengthsfinder assessment to learn more about the apprentice’s personalities and strengths. The thing I love about this test is that it focuses on your strengths instead of your weaknesses. By understanding our strengths, we can...
by Leah Wynn | Dec 4, 2017 | Apprenticeship, Community, Events, Growth, Learning, Quality code, Reflections, Software apprentice, Software craftsmanship
Greater Sum hosted the annual Global Day of Code Retreat in Atlanta last week, and if you’ve never attended a Code Retreat you are definitely missing out. The day starts out by getting a bunch of developers together. You do not have to have any certain skills or...
by Natasha Carlyon | Aug 28, 2017 | Quality code, Reflections, Software apprentice
To comment or not to comment, that is the question. Whenever a programmer writes a comment, she is writing for another human being, not a compiler. She is writing the comment in hopes of helping either her future self and/or fellow developers gain a better...
by Victoria Sadoh | Jul 21, 2017 | Apprenticeship, Software apprentice
What is your professional background? My professional background is very varied. I’ve been in administration, inventory, real estate and telecommunications. The latter takes up the biggest percentage of my work experience. I worked for Time Warner Cable in New York...
by Victoria Sadoh | Jul 7, 2017 | Apprenticeship, Software apprentice
What is your professional background? I graduated from The University Of Massachusetts Lowell in Economics. I became a business analyst at CineMassive making Microsoft Excel Reports and managing a SQL database for 3 and a half years. What is your previous coding...
by Victoria Sadoh | Jun 19, 2017 | Apprenticeship, Software apprentice
What is your professional background? Other than an internship with a company called Firma8, my professional background is mostly manual labor centered jobs. I was a pool technician for several years during the summers, I worked in a kitchen for one year, I...