Now that I am finished, here is a quick guide to completing the apprenticeship based on my experiences. Bootcamp My time at Makers Academy was very enjoyable. I learned so much and met some great people. I will say it took everyone in the group some time to start being comfortable with eachother and really … Continue reading How to Pass the L4 Software Developer Apprenticeship
A few weeks ago, I started the beginning of the end of my apprenticeship. After a year of creating a portfolio and finishing my vendor and knowledge exams, I was ready to start the process of finishing. There were 2 things left for me to do: A final synoptic projectAn interview with a BCS assessor … Continue reading Finishing My Apprenticeship
As part of my apprenticeship, I have to gain a vendor qualification. The one I am doing is the Microsoft 70-480 exam, Programming in HTML 5 with JavaScript and CSS. Unfortunately I have almost 0 experience in all the areas of the exam, so I have been doing lots of revision. I wanted to share … Continue reading Microsoft 70-480 Exam Prep
As part of the Level 4 Software Developer Apprenticeship, I have to complete a Knowledge Module exam. The exam is called BCS Level 4 Diploma in Software Development Methodologies. You can find the syllabus here. [The module] covers the range of concepts, approaches and techniques that are applicable to Software Development Methodologies, for which Apprentices … Continue reading Level 4 Diploma in Software Development Methodologies
6 Months In (Almost) I thought the (almost) 6 month mark would be a good place to do a little recap on what I have been up to since starting back at Tesco as a Software Developer! I won't go into loads of detail on the code, partly because I am not sure I am … Continue reading Working in Tesco Technology
Presentation Prep Today was all about preparing our presentation for tomorrow. This meant making sure everything was working as it should and recording a walkthrough of our website. This meant a bit of bug fixing. Delete Fixtures This is actually one I fixed yesterday but forgot to mention. When a fixture is added, it is … Continue reading Day 56 at Makers Academy
Feature Freeze Accordion Fix Yesterday evening I was looking over our app and found that one of our features had stopped working. On the add fixtures page we used to have an accordion box, which when clicked would open up to reveal all the fixtures that had been added already. Here is an example of … Continue reading Day 55 at Makers Academy
Fixing Weather and Permission Based Views Weather I managed to fix the issue I was having with weather this morning. Again the issue was to do with the asynchronous rendering, so I added in a conditional render that checked if the location was set before passing it to the weather class. This way the weather … Continue reading Day 54 at Makers Academy
Final Week 3 More Days We only have 3 more days to work on our final projects including today. After Wednesday it is all about bug fixes and prep for our presentations. I think we have made good progress in the week and a half we have had, I am not sure we will finish … Continue reading Day 53 at Makers Academy
Tables Fixture List We originally wanted the fixture list to be a table, but earlier in the week we couldn't get it to work. I think the problem was that we were trying to render a table for each item in the fixture array which was causing issues. Because of this we decided for the … Continue reading Day 52 at Makers Academy
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