As a freelance programmer locally, I have always had an opportunity to work on various projects. One major characteristic the majority of the projects I had worked on had in common was they were simple websites with three or four fixed pages: Home, About Us, Services and Contact Us. Occasionally…

As my andela boot camp journey continued, I had an opportunity to meet the members of the new team I’ll be working with during boot camp. This boot camp was different from the previous ones. Week one had about three times the number of aspiring Andeans as the previous boot…

My first week of the andela boot camp challenge was fairly smooth in my opinion. I had been there before and I had learnt to navigate my way around its expectations. The second week though opened up in a direction I wasn’t expecting. We were expected to replace our non-persistent…

On the 28th of April, during the continuation of my andela-boot camp journey, I was invited for an onsite-meeting at the andela offices in Kampala. The openness and general approachable nature of everyone further drilled home my desire to join. Not too long into the session, I had an opportunity…

The Andela Boot camp challenge.. A month ago I had an opportunity to try out for the andela boot camp 7. It was broken down into 4 major challenges. In Challenge one I was expected to build a simple UI using HTML/CSS and/or JavaScript. I am very familiar with html/css…

Getting to the boot camp stage in andela while difficult was nowhere as difficult as the boot camp itself. I found out that within the space of two weeks, I had to move from an inexperienced flask coder to deploying a complete meal booking API consisting of a UI design…

On the 23rd of April, during the continuation of my andela-bootcamp journey, I was invited for an onsite-meeting at the andela offices in Kampala. The first few things I noticed were the clean polished look of the structure, the “startupy” feel of the new-age companies and most of all the…

Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with a potential client to discuss what I could do for him. After a brief discussion we narrowed down his need. I was contracted by the client to develop and deploy a file allocation system for a separate organization. …

Day 4 for me started on a high note. I felt confident about my progress so far and was certain I’d finish the project. My team had a brief session with my team leader. We had a light hearted conversation and she gave us some pointers. As the day progressed…