Andela Kenya Cohort X Boot camp Experience up to Day 2

Day 2 at boot camp has been comparably, not very different from Day 1. I had to read about Public API’s and how to use them in python programming language using the urllib3 library. This was suggested by a fellow boot camper after I indicated to her that I was a bit of a noob when it comes to networking programming. This culminated in me successfully implementing a command line python application that could connect and use the json API for foreign exchange. Here is the link forex

When working on the second assignment of the day which was in AndeLabs, titled ‘Word Count’, I did an implementation which to my knowledge should have worked but when I put it to the test, I was amazed it had an import error. It occurred to me that the designers of the AndeLabs didn’t want us having it easy. So they prohibited the use of the library collections which is inbuilt in python. I therefore had to think of a different approach to count the number of times an element occurs in a list and consequently form a key-value pair of the element and the number of times it occurred. With a bit of rethinking, I was able to achieve this with a conditional statement inside a for loop.

After finishing and submitting my labs at 4.30 pm. , I remembered my boot camp supervisor had suggested earlier in the day that my writing skills should incorporate more the 7 C’s of effective communication, so I hit the road reading about all the 7 C’s of effective communication online.

Although this piece might not be a reflection of a writer who has mastered the 7 C’s of effective communication, It is an art I am keen to work on and I sure will get better at it by the day.

Thank You Andela for the opportunity to participate in the boot camp. I sure will be a much better and more productive person when I reach the end of the boot camp!.