My TIIDELab Experience 1.0 (First Month)
A journey of one thousand mile begins with a step…..
This is the evaluation of my one month experience in TIIDELab. It’s an amazing, challenging, brain-tasking, and competitive journey though.
Before I proceed let me say a big thanks to Mr. Kadir Salami (The founder of TIIDELab)for putting this amazing program on the ground for the young developer to a self-reliant and employable developer.
On one faithful day when I’m busy chatting on WhatsApp, I just saw a message containing https://www.tiidelab.com/signup, on seeing this one thought just bang into my mind that I should sign up and I follow my thought because I believe in it.
To cut the story short I applied and we are given a task to build a sign-up form for TIIDELab. I found this easy because I already know about HTML and CSS but I found the JavaScript a little bit difficult. After passing through this stage, I saw a message on my mail that I’m qualified for the interview, on seeing this happiness run through my head to the toe a and on the other side I’m shivering because I haven’t had any interview before.
Can you see how I’m sitting, fear had overcome me but when the interrogation start I just don’t know what I’m saying, I just know that they are asking me and I’m answering them. I lost hope, in the end, that would they call me that I’m qualified or not?
Two days after the interview I woke up at the midnight to iron my cloth. I just saw a popup message in my mail from TIIDELab and I read through it. Surprisingly, I saw that I’m qualified as a member of TIIDELab fellowship cohort 2, I feel excited and overjoyed….
Now a full-fledged fellows in TIIDELab
We start this amazing journey with warmth orientation which is led by Mr. Shamsudeen Aderoju (program coordinator) and also My Mentor. And then we are addressed by The founder itself and he said one maxim that I love most, he said that “When you are alone you move FAST but when you are with people you move FAR” and this has kept me on the move…
We start the class fully, in the morning session we normally do an aptitude test and it is brain-tasking, it is set to test our critical thinking and the time limit is quite small. I think this is where the challenge comes because you will have to manage time.
The first two weeks are interesting as we are being introduced to the world of the developer. Here I learned that you have to be a developer and not a coder. A developer solves a real-time problem and a coder just believes in write a line of code day and night. And as a good developer, you must possess four skills which are: Analytical skills, Technical skills, communication skills, and coding skills. This knowledge was brought to us by Mr. Saheed Adepoju, a software developer from Intel, and he also introduces us to Data structures and Algorithm, Big-O notation, time and space complexity concerning programming. And I have been able to digest it because he broke it down into smaller trunks for us. And in the same week, we also have Mr. Farouk Alogba who also talks on Data structure and Algorithm in detail.
On the other hand, we have Ms. Grace Ejegwa who takes us to the world of version control tools like Git and also explains the correlation between the Git and the Github. Personally, I found the class interesting especially when we are doing Git command like git init, git push, git status, git pull, and git checkout.
And we move to Advanced HTML and CSS which is led by Mr. Solomon Chokor a seasoned Frontend Developer. He takes us through all we need to know about Html and CSS without even bootstrap, he told us that we must know the basics first then we will find bootstrap easy by then. We walk through Html 5 rudiments, CSS specificity, selectors, combinators, flex-box, grid and also making of responsive navbar. Enjoy this class though.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. After 4 days of coding, aptitude test, peer learning session which is Remote we have one day for Physical Meetups. These meetups have to help me a lot in developing my communication skills because I’m a sociophobes and now I’m improving ineffective communication.
And I opportunity the opportunity to meet my colleagues and share opinions and rub minds together. I’ve learned about Teamwork, Problem-solving and framing, leadership skills, and also organizational skills. And this Friday meetup is a code-free day we gathered to learn etiquette, team building and reforming, Problem solving, and framing. And the part I love most is the game for Head of House HoH.
This is not just a game but it is a brain challenging one. Being HoH you are entitled to some privileges that normal fellow didn’t have, part of it is that you will have a 30-minutes discussion with the founder and it’s what all fellows are looking up to. I have not to win HoH before but I’m once a Deputy head of house though. During my tenure I have been able to work synergically with the HOH, and also I have been able to learn about what it takes to be a leader and this has brushed up my leadership skills. To wrap the session, we normally heard a word of advice as a scalable and employable developer from Mr. Pishikeni Tukura. Personally, I’ve learned a lot from him, learned that you must know your position as a developer and you must have what it takes to be a self-reliant and employable developer.
The key component that I also learned in this journey is how to work under pressure in the start it was difficult but as the time goes on have been improving on how to meet up with deadlines and my faculty of thinking as now changed toward the direction of solving problems, writing a scalable and consistence code, working as a team, self-reliant and employable developer.
As Mr. Shams will always say that “we have not yet started that we are still testing the Mic”. We are still testing the mic and I’ve known all this thing, I wonder if we are set… by then I would become a self-reliant and employable developer that I always dreamt of.
We have started vanilla js now with Mr. Ibrahim Kehinde popularly known as Mr. Kenny and finding it interesting already……………………..
I wanna use this beautiful moment to say a big THANKS to TIIDELab initiatives as a whole for this life-changing program for the upcoming developers
And also my fellows in Lagos and Abuja. Love you all
… I’m Yours sincerely
Ariyibi Baseet, fellow at TIIDELab
