Developer Dungeon.
It’s been almost one year since I made an appearance here, so lets get right into it. It’s rewind time!
I'm not one to have new year resolutions however, the year’s been pretty favorable to me. Finally got back on track with my Uni classes, got a pretty good review at the end of two excruciatingly long semesters. One of the units I undertook was Graphic design and my oh my I never thought I’d hate that as bad as I did…in a span of 12 weeks we were to learn the ins and outs of working with blender and for me it was extreme hell. I still managed to come up with a decent donutty animation (with rainbow sprinkles at the top, haha) that was fun.
Next we had I had to work with networks and networking, felt good getting my hands dirty sorting out wires and cables making sure routers and repeaters are connected and there's a seamless flow of data packets from from connected devices. I had fun working with different types of architecture I think my biggest challenge was working with security tools like firewalls. This was a fun class though.
I joined ALX finally ( I believe I mentioned that in my previous post) however, I managed to finish part one which was professional foundations, basically learning to learn, ideation, working with AI in an ethical manner while also being able to solve global challenges using tech. I feel like working at ALX with the team I had during my professional foundation semester was the best, I enjoyed coming up with professional slides for my personal global challenge which was how tech can solve wild-life decrease challenge and our group’s collective global challenge, Healthcare.
After that came my internship semester, I was attached at Kenya Pipeline Company Kenya. I enjoyed the experience, I was there for at least 4 months. I believe my only problem I had was they I didn’t get to be in the field as a developer. I had a brilliant end of attachment project for their sister company, Morendat Institute of Oil and Gas, which was basically a school so I worked on a school portal using typescript (Vite which I had to learn passively though), Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/UI and React Router for the for the user side. For the server side I used PHP and MySQL for the database.
This was a generally fun build, especially with the small amount of time I had to come up with it. I was shaking during the panel presentation but it was successful I was actually really happy with how it turned out, my project worked out seamlessly no bugs, no failed attempts, well how could it, I spent the whole night ensuring all API endpoints were connected.
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During this time I had enrolled in ALX Back-end Development program but I bit more than I could chew and that had to get clicked out of the plate at the time. Before I tapped out however, I was able to learn how to work with python and what i believe is currently my favorite framework…Django. having worked with other frameworks such as MongoDB and Laravel I found peace and comfort in Django. It was super easy to switch databases, it comes with a library of built in functionalities which made my work really easy since I had to focus more on the development rather than building and configuring tools I needed for said development. I did reapply for the Back-end program once more as soon as I was done with my school and work projects.
Started doing mathematics from scratch and it felt amazing relearning these concepts. I believe this is the only promise I can make to myself that and keeping my git hub as active as possible.
Now for my highlight of the year. I finally made it to the finish line. I’m happy I feel a bit more free than usual, I mean I know eventually I’ll have to go back and get a higher degree than what I graduated from, but I’m pretty happy with where I am at the moment. Time to send out those applications and get into the plantation.
The code be with us all, until I pop up here again.
