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Day 3: UI Development
Day 3 I spent working on my code. After my mentor had seen my layout he gave me the go ahead to continue coding this app. I had chosen to use Java as my language of choice to develop this app and would use Open Weather Map to for the API to get weather data from. I...
Day 2: Geek + Planning
Day 2 of the journey continued where we left off. After learning about communication on the first day it was important to learn about another aspect of the Summerschool which was with Geek Managed Services. We learnt this from Markus in a meeting about "What it means...
Day 1: Orientation
The first day of Summer school! Today is the day we, the students, start our first day of learning. We start with a orientation meeting with Nomfundo. In this meeting I get to meet my fellow colleagues for the next week. I learnt about what immedia is and the work...
Gagasi FM Project
My name is Mthobisi Khumalo, A final year student enrolled under Software Development course at MUT. Being one of the summer schoolers this year has been a blessing in disguise for me. The whole summer school team is over friendly and talented, I got to meet them...
My Week at Summer School
Personally I had a great time over the course of the week, I really enjoyed the Q & A Sessions with the different professionals as well as working with my mentor. At the start of the week I had very little knowledge of API's but I now have a better understanding...
My week with the geeks
My weeks with the geeks was amazing. I chose to learn about networking. I have learnt alot of new stuff at summer school. I was also apart of the group which had done summer school virtually. The week had gone by so fast wish I could do it again. Thank you summer...
My second experience at summer school
GitHub: Before coming to immedia the only thing I knew how to do was commit, push, and pull from GitHub.
Oliver thought me the importance of committing regularly (even broken code).
I also learned how to use GitHub with a “team” (made up of Oliver and me)
My Summer School experience
Summer School was a great experience for me, a week-long of fun activities and memories. I was mentored by Theolin Naidoo where he had taught me Android Studio. We were given 3 projects that needed to be completed by the end of the week and premiered on the last day...
My API Development week at SummerSchool
In the end, I managed to create a successful website with a few features, which I was very proud of as it was my first one. I was unable to create the website implementing the Marvel API but will finish it soon. In my opinion, It was a very good week, as I was exposed to a working environment, different people, different platforms, and software.
Summer School Experience
The immedia's Summer School has been a great and worthwhile experience. During my time at immedia I was able to learn key skills and identify my strengths and weaknesses, as well as gain an overall exposure to working dynamics . I also had the opportunity to learn and...
