My learning experience at Crio Winter of Doing(CWoD)-Stage 1

Hello Everyone, In this post, I would be sharing my experience at the Tech Externship program named Crio Winter of Doing.

Before I start talking about my experience of Externship with Crio.do Winter of Doing , Let me first give you a brief introduction of ‘Crio.do’ and what does ‘EXTERNSHIP’ mean.

What is an Externship ?

A temporary training programme, especially one offered to students as part of a course of study. Externship is similar to Internship where you get a learning opportunity for a shorter period which is actually provided by some educational institution or community in collaboration or in partnership with company for a practice learning experience. Due to short period of time it can be easily completed by students in their winter or summer break and hence is very helpful.

What is Crio.do ?

Crio.do is a platform that empowers developers to crack real-world industry problems and ‘learn by doing’ with a mission to empower developers with high-quality applied-learning opportunities. Link to the site :- Crio.Do | Project-Based Learning Platform for Developers

Introduction

My Externship journey with cio.do started on 5 Jan 2021. The day I received an email from Crio.Do that I have been selected for stage 1 of CWoD.

There are totally 3 stages for this Externship Program:

Stage 1 (Warm-Up), Stage 2 (Preparation), Stage 3 (Externships / Projects)

The Externship is in association with CRED, Groww, Jumbotail, AWS, Recko, Slice and Vicara. In this You pay nothing, your effort is the only investment.

My Experience With Stage 1 (Warm-up) :-

The Stage 1 started on 9 Jan 2021- The Duration for Stage 1 is- Jan 9th to Jan 24th

Crio Winter of Doing: Kickoff(Program Introduction)

Live session on YouTube ,Introduction to the whole journey with Crio.do. We also got to know about different parts of each stage and how to GET STARTED. Insights into Bytes( At Crio.do Micro Learning Experiences are called Bytes) which we have to complete by deadline including some additional bytes.

The Micro-Experiences (Bytes) :-

HTTP Byte :-

1. Got a clear understanding of how HTTP works.
2. 2. Used tools like cURL & Postman to perform HTTP requests and analyse responses

Learn about http requests

get hands-on with requests and understanding response headers and request payloads

Composing an HTTP request

REST Byte :-

1. Understand what REST APIs are
2. Understand how to make REST API calls

How REST requests happen all the time.

Building and making requests to REST APIs using Java

creating a Linkedin POST through Terminal using LinkedIn’s REST API

Linux Byte :-

1. Get rid of the fear of Linux terminal
2. Get familiar with the basic commands necessary to navigate a Linux box

Dealing with files and directories using LINUX

AWS Byte :-

1. Launch your first virtual server in AWS
2. Deploy the app backend server
3. Connect mobile app to the app backend server

Setting up and running QEats app using Docker

Accessing the App Server from the Android App

Git Byte :-

Understand how Git works, Here we used Git and with different terminal commands we pushed and pulled the code from git.

HTML And CSS Byte :-

1. Get started using HTML for web pages
2. 2. Get started using CSS to style web pages
3. 3. Get introduced to CSS Flexbox
4. 4. Create first static website

QPrep JavaScript :-

This byte consisted of JavaScript and its functionalities like conditional statements, looping statements, promises, Objects, handling exceptions and Fetch API’s.

Problem:FETCH API

QProfile (The Portfolio Web App) :-

Designing and deploying personal profile webpage which can be publicly shared.

1. Understand the ingredients that make up a full stack application
2. Integrate the webpage with your github projects
3. Deploy the webpage using netlify
4. Create a backend to store visitor information from the webpage
5. Deploy the backend to heroku and integrate with the frontend

Qprofile

Below is my progress after completing all the bytes with the additional bytes.

My Progress Report!

The Community

During this entire journey if we were unable to solve a task or had some problem we had a great community for help and support. we all were added to their Slack Group, And this helped me a lot. Whenever I had an issue , I used to ask in the Slack and I always got instant reply from the community.

slack discussion

My Stage 1 Certificate & Awards

In the last 7 days I have picked up essential web development skills in a practical way by completing multiple Crio Bytes.

I am proud to share my well-deserved CWod Stage-1 certificate :)

AWARDS RECEIVED: #Disciplined Rooster #Unstoppable Bull

CONCLUSION

The journey of CWoD Stage I was amazing and I learned a lot and upgraded my skills .Looking forward for further stages .Do visit Crio for getting such opportunities in future .

Thankyou Crio.do For providing me such a great platform for learning

P.S. This BLOG is a part of the #shareyourlearning challenge.So do not forget to 👏🏻#Crio #CWoD #ShareYourLearning #LearnbyDoing

Thank you .

References:-

Crio.do Website — https://www.crio.do