Outreachy Internship Experience with Wikimedia
The internship has provided me with a great learning experience. One of the fears I had about the internship that turned out not to come true was the fear of not being able to complete the project.
My awesome posts
I pen down my journey as e dey hot. Never forget to give me a clap if you find it enlightening.
My Career Goals - Taking it forward
The three months Outreachy Internship with Wikimedia Foundation has been a very impactful one for me. At the end of the internship I will be open for an internship, part-time/full-time job and volunteer opportunities with special interest in remote opportunities.
Modifying Expectation
This is the 7th week so far in the Outreachy internship and first half of the internship. Here is my progress report for the first half of the internship.
Outreachy-Think about your audience
In my previous post. I shared with you how you can apply for the outreachy internship and the necessary application stages and their requirements.
Experiences applying to Outreachy
Outreachy is a paid, remote internship program. Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. Outreachy gives newcomers the opportunity to make their first open source contribution.
Everybody Struggles - Outreachy
It's already three weeks since the internship commenced and my project proposal was a little adjusted. My first task was to improve the UI of the app and I started of by redesigning the UI using Figma.
Making API calls with Apollo client in Android
GraphQL is a query Language for your API
How to Configure CircleCI in Android
As part of the recent trends in software development best practices. The need for a Continuous Integration tool cannot be over-emphasized. You might want to ask what’s Continuous Integration?
Kotlin Keywords and Special Symbols and their usage (Part 2)
In part 1 of the post I did a little introduction to Kotlin and what it has to offer. What makes it smarter than Java and some of the keywords that you might find confusing if you are new to Kotlin. If you have not read that post I would advise you click on here to check it out. Nevertheless, if you are not completely new to Kotlin, you can continue reading. This post is not totally dependent on the part one of the series.
Kotlin Keywords and Special Symbols and their usage (Part 1)
I have been working with Java for a while now to build android applications. Just recently I decided to checkout Kotlin.