Introduction.
Do you ever wonder what life is like in a boot camp at a cool tech company? Here is my take from my first-week experience.
First and foremost what is this task force? if you visit the Awesomity website you see that it is a joint effort between Awesomity and code of Africa “to develop a solid and talented pool of software developers and product designers right here in the heart of Africa. ” as per the website. what have I learnt so far? Let’s dive into it.
Communication
As a software developer the first think that comes in your mind when you hear the word boot camp it’s what programming language am I going to learn. Undermining the most pivot skill which is communication and this is an important lesson I learnt from our first challenge. The first challenge taught me that effective communication makes work a lot easier and moving on from a failing strategy can help to finish tasks in a timely manner. In task force they do not only give us technical skills but also soft skills which are as equally important since we won’t only be dealing with computers but also people.
Code Wars.
What I thought to be the biggest challenge of the week came as a coding challenge from code wars. We were supposed to do it as a team of two but me and my partner met a lot of roadblocks. We tried to find solutions among us as interns but to no avail. Forgetting they are brilliant software engineers next door from the code of Africa and Awesomity team. The way we tackled it was to ask for help. But in addition to that I am dedicating a couple of minutes a day to work on a challenge so that I can improve.
Agile Process.
We were introduced to agile process in software development and how to make user stories. We had to come up with the most viable product for a project of our choice and present it. And here came the biggest blow of the week I got really sick and couldn’t make it but my team had to adopt as that’s what agile is about and deliver the best even in my absence.
Conclusion
conclusively, my first-week was really interesting and fun. time flied fast I can’t imagine it’s been a week already and again it feels like we have been there for a long time because of the way were easily integrated in the team. Looking forward to another amazing week ahead
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