My experience at JENGA School sepa program during sprint 3

Introduction

Four months ago i began my software engineering journey at JENGA school and the experience so far is incredible. I have been able to successfully complete 3 sprint projects and i am so proud of this milestone. Being an avid developer myself, I must say this is one of the many experiences I have come to love. For this particular blog, i will talk about my sprint 3 experience.

Sprint 3

Basically, sprint 3 deliverable was building a simple music web application using html,CSS and JavaScript for the front-end and Firebase for the back-end. The sprint officially commenced on April with Dr Nderu as the lead instructor. The first step i took while developing the application was designing the user interface which was easy for me since am well conversant with html,CSS and JavaScript. The back-end however was a bit of a challenge since Firebase was a new concept.

I spent a couple of weeks learning Firebase mostly using the official Firebase documentation and YouTube videos. The learning process was great and i got to learn a lot. Some of the technical skills i learnt were:

1. How to do queries with firestore. This includes create,read,update and delete queries.
2. Cloud storage. This allows users to store and retrieve data in the cloud.
3. Authentication. This allows user authentication using email and password,social accounts(Facebook,google,twitter) and anonymous authentication.
4. Security rules. Firebase Security Rules work by matching a pattern against database paths, and then applying custom conditions to allow access to data at those paths.
5. Real time database. The Firebase Real-time Database lets you build rich, collaborative applications by allowing secure access to the database directly from client-side code.
6. Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps provides developer services for allowing teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software.

With the concepts learnt i was able to build a fully functional web application that allowed a user to login, signup,add songs,add real-time comments and stream music. Below is a demo of the project.

project demo

Some of the soft skills learnt during the sprint include:

1. Art of communication. When doing a presentation,I've learnt how to be eloquent and confident. Confidence during presentation was a challenge i faced before the sprint but i worked on the aspect and ill keep working on it until i meet my goal.
2. Team work. Firebase being a new concept even to my classmates,we had to work together in-order to achieve the sprint deliverable.Team Work is very important when finding solutions to problems.

conclusion

Sprint 3 was explicit and am loving the progress so far. I keep learning new concepts each day.The SEPA program is a great program for developers aspiring to be great developers in the future and those individuals looking forward to solving existing problems by programming. I look forward to learning more from the upcoming sprints.

“Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.” — Sadhguru

Thank you for reading.