ICA Uniuyo — Complete Student developer
The ICA University of Uyo has grown strongly and gradually as one big happy family, this isn’t hard to tell from the above photo; oh you might want to ignore the guy with mouth wide open though but do not. He, the ICAs and a whole lot of other persons were instrumental to the success of the event we held on the 11th of May, 2019. Despite our school examination coming up in less than three weeks from the event date, we tried to make this event a success and it was.
The Complete Student developer was an event meant to demystify the basic software development life cycle and give students a taste of each World so they can see how it works and properly decide where to venture into.
After the welcome note was given by my humble self.
We went straight to the technical stuff. Chris Steve, a guest speaker and product designer gave a fired talk about the Fundamental approach to product designs. He introduced user interface and user experience designs also.
Up next James John James introduced Front-end development, the juicy part and the hard part.
The third speaker Wisdom Anthony an ICA followed up with Back-end development with some cool advice on the programming language to choose as a beginner for an easy transition into back-end development.
At this point, we took a break from the technical stuff and branched into less technical but also beneficial content
Our next speaker ChiPraise Basil graced us with a short talk about Why we love Tech communities and why you should too. This was meant to introduce technology communities to beginners and how they can benefit and grow from being members of our community.
Nsikan Etukudoh, an ICA talked about How to manage school and your passion this is something we wanted to put out there, to let beginner techies know that it will get difficult at a point but there are ways to manage the difficulty.
Increasing the technicality a bit…
Our next speaker Mfonobong Umondia an ICA gave a talk on the Introduction to technical writing. It was amazing, she mostly spoke from a designer perspective but developers were not left out either.
At this point we did a quick meet and greet, went out to take photos and refreshment came. Nothing else mattered, LOL, but we had to move on we had an open-mic discussion time for anyone that has relevant content to share and it was amazing. literally, we had talks covering freelancing tips, open source contributing and developing your soft skills as a technical person.
UP next came the Hands-on session
In this session, we shared ourselves according to areas of interest. The design session was handled by Joshua Okoro, the front-end implementation was handled by Gift John and the back-end implementation was handled by Macjoe Umanah.
unfortunately, we could not finish the implementation of the design we crafted out because of time but the beginners amongst us got to see what this different aspect of technology looks like. From here onward we plan to develop on this introductory knowledge.
Appreciation
I on behalf of the Ingressive campus ambassadors, want to appreciate Ingressive and everyone that came out to support us and made this event a success. I say thank you to Promise Akpan, Edidiong Etuk, Jammie Sandy and everyone else I mentioned before now or I mistakenly forgot to mention. The Ingressive campus ambassadors Uniuyo says Thank you. Let’s do this again next time, actually, let us do better than this next time.
