Hi everyone! Sorry I wasn’t able to upload a blog post last week – my life has been incredibly hectic. On the bright side, I’m happy to finally announce that I am finally employed. In two weeks, I will be starting as a full-stack engineering intern for a unicorn start-up. After my internship is up, I will be moving to Plano, Texas (basically Dallas) since I also committed to a full-time software engineering position with Capital One! The on-boarding process has been time-consuming and there is so much paperwork to read and go through. But I’m happy to know that the program has paid off and I’m ready to start developing for real-world applications and get paid.

For my full-stack internship, I’ll be working primarily in React for the front-end and Ruby on Rails for the back-end. I’ve never touched Ruby before but I hear that Ruby is very similar to Python which gives me some relief. I’m also pretty happy to be working with React on the capstone project to give me some exposure before actually using it at work.

Our capstone project has been coming along pretty nicely. The features that I was assigned to implement are the: Navigation Bar, the profile pages, the search page, and the user dashboard. So far I was able to create the pages with React and give a general layout. The next steps are to refactor the pages to be able to pass customized parameters (known as props in React). That way I can render pages for specific objects that are taken from the database. As for the database, we’ve been able to get the database up and running. The next steps for that are to add some sample data and ensure that the pages can correctly utilize the data.

Other than that, things are going swell and I hope to get as much as I can done for the project before my internship starts.