Tiptoe into *web software engineering*~ Day 0.1

So, the second session is also through. Uncle Tick-tock 🥸 is moving fast, tbh. Yesterday was like a 'teaser' of what's coming.

Finally, we got to interact with our instructor, Prash. That dude is... something. His sheer experience in different tech streams will give any of those soi-disant (feeling French today😉) 'gurus' an inferiority complex😁 Don't get me started on his knowledge base, it's way too much. As an Irish woman would say, "Prash loves computers in bunches."

N.B. This blog might seem a bit haphazard. Apologies🙏 This session was like an intro to web engineering; Captain Prash👨🏼‍✈️ told us something about a lot of things, so it's a bit all over the place.

Some general reminders to the cohort:

• Poor time management is detrimental to success. So, don't piss off Tick-tock Chacha⌛

• Rote learning is not the goal, but a little bit of memorization is required in the beginner phase.

• It's impossible to process everything of something in one go.

• Whilst researching a topic, learn to pick the key ideas and let go of the noise.

• Learn the technical jargon. Being proficient in the "industry lingo" shows that you know the game, which is essential for better career opportunities.

• It's important to have a strategy - a plan of attack.

  

Web software engineering🤯, what the hell is that?

In a nutshell, it means to design, develop, test, maintain, and evaluate software (apps) on the web platform, that is, they function in a web browser.

Let's start from the end. Engineering involves converting ideas into reality. This conversion requires us to apply scientific and mathematical principles and an immense amount of problem-solving ability.

Now, software.

Software refers to a set of precise instructions/steps that a computer can execute or perform. Such instructions are written in a language machines can decipher, as regular English is gibberish😕 to them.

Okay... the web. The web is at the heart of this hyper-connected world. I mean, it is the driving force of this bootcamp. There are a lot of technical details to it, which I'll publish, hopefully, in my future blogs🤞(Uncle Tick-tock🥸 doesn't like me that much, not yet). We found out a crazy thing: the so-called "www." is not a real thing. It was just a silly folder name created by Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the web) during one of his demonstrations.

Click to see the first-ever web page.

**I can't recall much about the concept of "abstraction." But we'll surely get into that later.

Thanks. See you soon 😊