First Month of Internship
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First Month of Internship

How My First Month of Internship Went

Give a summary of your accomplishments for the last month.

  • Development setup and product familiarisation
  • Onboarding exercises
  • Bug fixes

What knowledge/skills (both technical and non-technical) did you gain from the internship last month?

  • Observed and picked up several good programming practices
  • Gained a deeper understanding of Spring Boot annotations
  • Learnt about how to write integration tests through mocks
  • Developed a better understanding of Scrum methodology

What are the difficulties/challenges you faced during the past month, if any? How did you overcome (or plan to overcome) them?

  • Some issues with setting up the development environment, but managed to resolve it through Googling and help of mentor
  • Difficulty understanding several business jargon, consulted internal documentation and team Wiki.

What do you plan to accomplish during the next month?

  • Develop a better understanding of the backend architecture to improve development speed
  • Further improve understanding of the various Spring Boot annotations
  • Learn to write better integration tests
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the various software tools used in the project