As our team begins to build our full-stack job tracker for our capstone project I can’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia. When we had our initial meeting to determine our stack, we decided on using Node/Express.js for our backend and React for our frontend. Everyone was comfortable building with the stack and I was pretty happy to be working with this stack again. To me, this stack represented how far I’ve come and how much more I have to learn.
It’s June 7th, 2021 and it was the first day of my first internship. I felt incredibly grateful and lucky to be part of twenty-five students to be accepted to Codepath’s inaugural Summer Internship for Tech Excellence (SITE). During this ten-week program, we would be put through an accelerated software learning period (almost like a mini boot camp) to give us the ability to build our own projects by the end of the internship. Throughout this time we would use the PERN stack (Postgres, Express.js, React, and Node.js), to build four full-stack applications in ten weeks.
The first five weeks had moments where everyone felt we were drinking out of a fire hose, but we were learning a ton and building community between students. During the back half of the internship, we would join groups of two or three students to build a final capstone project to demonstrate what we learned. Fast forward to our final presentation and I and my software partner (shoutout to Kordell, he’s a beast) completed a pizza ordering application with a customized user dashboard and owner dashboard with user data and analytics.
When I think about our Job Tracker application, I think so fondly of my beginnings as a software engineer. Moments like this remind me to always take some time to reflect and celebrate how far I’ve come during my career transition journey. Hopefully, you reading this can also look back and congratulate yourself on all your accomplishments.
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