My experience at Lux Academy frontend onboarding.
“Software Development is a commitment to continuous learning” ~ Wayne Gakuo
Few days after graduating from TIIDELab cohort 2, I got an admission into Lux Academy 50 days learning and 30 internship Program during a coding interview session at Deda Hospital.
I have applied for the program months back before I got the job offer at Deda hospital in Abuja, which I later dropped because of my academic semester time-table.
Apart from my personal project (article coming up soon on this), and other gigs that I am engaged with, I highly love to be at Lux Academy to keep me in check with my skill, and network with more developers around the world while also working as a team.
What is Lux Academy About?
Lux Academy is an online coding school with the goal of connecting developers around the world through learning, building, and solving problems which leads to individual growth.
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The Frontend Onboarding
The onboarding session was scheduled for 1pm 21/02/2020, over 5 countries including Nigeria and Kenya was represented in the program.
First Speaker
Wayne Gakuo is the first speaker for the onboarding, he is an Angular Frontend developer, who is also a co-founder of GDG Kenya and the team lead for the Angular developer Community in Kenya.
He demystifies the fundamentals of frontend engineering, from basic web components up to the difference between Angular and Angular JS, even though I am not an Angular Developer, he was able to catch my attention from the beginning to the end, especially when he was talking about the importance of using Typescript as a JavaScript developer.
He furthered explained the importance of networking and online presence by showing us his open-source portfolio and hint at how to improve existing ones.
Second Speaker
Fatma Ali was the second and last speaker during the onboarding, she is a React frontend developer from Kenya, works at Antara Health, and a Bollywood dancer after her code tests passes.
Fatma enlightens us on the importance of time management as an engineer, and how it increases productivity and shipping project features more faster and efficiently.
she gave us tips on how to manage our time efficiently without losing focus on the current task.
she worked us through her personal approach to scheduling her daily activities as a developer.
Fatma uses the scrum agile framework with her team in developing and delivering her assigned tasks, she also uses pomofocus as her time management system which helps her stay focus while working on a task.
She finalized her session by giving all the onboarding frontend engineers a long term assignment, which is to plan their learning for a productive result.
Wow, and that was the end of the onboarding session, a beginning of the 50 days program with Lux Academy.
Thanks for reading this far.
I will be writing more articles on my experience during the program, so make sure to check back very soon.
you can reach out to Wayne Gakuo on twitter and Fatma Ali on twitter
