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Its all over. Weeks 11 and 12.
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- On this weeks show
- Finally it is over.
- What’s involved in week 11 and 12.
- The Final Project (Project Snowflake).
- What happens now?
- What are my plans.
- How am I feeling?
Finally its over.
- This has been an intense 12 weeks.
- Can’t believe it is over.
- We have covered so many principles about programming.
- Learnt so much about ourselves and learning.
- Now we must keep going as we had a careers talk with a couple of ex-students..
What was week 11 and 12 about?
- We had to submit ideas for the final project.
- Then there is a short list of projects.
- We are then put into groups.
- The project we did was about a community website.
- We managed to get a MVP very quickly.
- We used a framework called Meteor (which is based on Javascript).
- The challenges we had were more to do with the front end of the website. Nevertheless, we overcame most of the obstacles by tweaking the CSS.
- We had cool features like sending emails.
- Put your skills on the website.
What are my plans now.
- Now we are handed over to the careers team.
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- Although, we have to take care of Christmas.
- It is going to feel strange on Monday.
- We were introduced to the careers team.
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- They have beefed up this part of Makers. As more people are joining Makers in January.
- We had to have our own private slack channel and invite the careers team to it.
- Main focus is to tidy up my Github and then update my CV.
- Will definitely go over all aspects of the course.
- Special focus on areas that I feel I have been weak on.
- Going to a careers fair in January.
How am I feeling.
- This has been a difficult week.
- This process has been very tough on myself emotionally and physically.
- I do miss not being active. Which is what I had in my previous job.
- To be honest I not the strongest person in the whole cohort.
- The last day I felt very deflated. Others felt more euphoric about their achievements.
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