Coming to Summer School has taught me so much, both within a real working environment and in terms of the programming skills and techniques used in the IT working industry.

I curbed the typical blue–Monday–after–a-lovely- weekend-fever, as my week started with a great start at Summer School.

I was welcomed exceptionally well by Nomfundo as she got me and the other Summer School attendees prepared with her introductory address to the programme.

Here I was troubleshooting the printer and I detected the errors and solved them.

Day #3 another success! Today I attended a session based on Cloud Computing. It was interesting to learn about Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure.

I think this is the first time I have been more excited than nervous to be thrown into a new group of people and into a field I have not even smelt for 13 years, all in the pursuit of developing a new skill.

It was really awesome spending the week with Geek Patrol, got to learn quite a bit from these guys. Being a Windows user, I learned how to troubleshoot some problems on a Mac.

I began to grasp the various concepts of the framework, Angular JS  which is quite cool for styling web pages.

A dream that lasted years…. finally a partial reality.

Hopefully this website can become a useful tool for many undergrads and interns trying to finding their career path in life.

I’ve learnt the components of the computers, creating a hard drive partition, how to make your own network cable (RJ45) and I’ve make quite a few of them. See pictures as proof….enjoy!!

Overall this Day wasn’t all bad. I survived and learnt so much from the tasks. I had loads of fun playing around and testing, so hey if you ever need a set up on your android tablet, I’m the girl you need to see.

I started of by installing software on Hp laptops and then changing the icons from shortcuts to standard apps. This for me was a new learning experience making the learning part thrilling. 

Feeling like a “computer surgeon”, I have connected a new hard drive, power supply, graphics card, networks card and RAM. Overall I would call it a successful day.

Web development

JQuery

I was given a task yesterday, so I have continued to complete the task. It was challenging. I have learnt a lot from photoshop 2017. I have also attended the mind shift talk today which I have learnt and understood of what the real world is and that technology changes all the time. I have learnt a lot of interesting facts.