Ok so technically it’s the first full week because OPW started last Tuesday December 9th, but either way – my first almost two weeks of OPW are coming to a close. My experience has been really good so far and I think I’m starting to find my groove in terms of how and where I work best location wised. I also think I’ve been pretty productive considering this is the first internship or job I’ve had (not counting the Ascend Project) in over 5 years.

So far I’ve resolved three bugs (some of which were actually feature requests) and have a fourth pull request waiting. I’ve been working entirely in Django so far primarily editing model and template files. One of the really nice things that I’ve gotten out of my project is learning while and via working on bugs/features.

Four weeks ago I hadn’t done any work with Django and realized that it would likely behoove me to dive into some tutorials (originally my OPW project with Input was going to be primarily in JavaScript but in reality doing things in Python and Django makes a lot more sense and thus the switch despite the fact that I’m still working with Input). I started a three or four basic tutorials and completed one and a half of them – in short, I didn’t have a whole lot of experience with Django ten days ago. Despite that. all of the the looking through and editing of files that I’ve done has really improved my skills both in terms of syntax and also in terms of being able to find information – both where to take information from and also where to put it. I look forward to all of the new things that I will learn and put in to practice.

http://www.adamokoye.com/2014/12/opw-week-two-coming-to-a-close/