#Week 11 & 12 — Season Finale
Well, here we are, the end of the full time course! For the past two weeks, I have been working with my team on our final project, coming to a fitting conclusion after 16 weeks of Makers Academy.
Our final project was a web app (mainly used for mobile) built for those who love to go hiking, named ‘Pin-my-hike’. As the name suggests, it lets you track your location on your favourite hikes, and lets you add descriptions and photos of certain specific areas via Google Maps.
It was very enjoyable working as a team to build the end product, but boy was it difficult! Mainly because we all decided that it would be a really cool and interesting to learn and implement a new tech stack, MERN (MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js) to be exact. Turns out that trying to simultaneously learn and apply a brand new framework to your final project in less than 10 days is tremendously hard (go figure); maybe we misjudged what it means to truly learn a full stack framework, and work out how they all connect with each other in Javascript, but we all put the work in to learn and understand (to a certain degree) what was required for our tasks.
Besides from the strain of going through multiple youtube videos and blog walkthroughs on how to create and set up a react project to get it working properly, I did gain quite a lot of knowledge and more intrigue into how a MERN stack can be so useful. As I have a need to improve and refine my front-end skills anyway, it comes handy that it has opened my eyes to learn more about React and the other technologies. At the end I’m very happy with how the project came together, with the amount of work we all managed to contribute as we all were very aligned in what features and elements to work on.
And that’s it! After the public demo we conducted on the presentation day (I hope to get the video and link it here in the future), that officially concluded the end of the course!… but doesn’t mean that my learning ends. Now I’m looking forward to fixing up and improving my processes, to not only get a job (here is my LinkedIn to any recruiters *wink wink*), but to also expand on the knowledge that I’ve gained to keep contributing to my projects and keep building. I’ve found myself being more eager than ever to learn more and keep improving on both ends, whether that be front-end or back-end because I want to be effective on what is required.
Speaking of projects, here is the link to the Pin-My-Hike repo so you can look for yourself and try it out. Thanks for reading my posts and it has been a pleasure documenting my journey on this platform. Until next time!
