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Samuel Osinloye
Samuel Osinloye

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Breaking into Tech through HNG Internship

HNG Internship is an initiative of Hotels.ng which has metamorphosed into a long-running large scale virtual internship for people learning to code and design. It's main focus is on post-training phase hereby creating a virtual workspace for its participants. Participants eagerly anticipate the kickoff of the program that has followings/participants from everywhere across the globe.
The internship is currently managed and coordinated by Zuri.team.

The scope of the internship is to unveil the best talent it can find in the tech space/world through subjection of its participants to some real world digital product development practices, team collaboration and fast-paced learning.

This eight edition of the internship would feature the following tracks:

  1. Frontend
  2. Backend
  3. Mobile
  4. DevOps
  5. Digital Marketing
  6. Entrepreneurship.

As a participant of this year's edition, my goals are as follows:

  1. Increase my network of friends who build digital products
  2. Have fun while building digital products that would sharpen the lives of millions of users
  3. Challenge myself to finish as one of the finalist on the NodeJS backend track.

Success during the internship requires but not limited to the following:

  1. An understanding and working knowledge of git and how it works. You can get started with git here.
  2. Basic knowledge of figma. You can get up and running here.
  3. How to write a basic markup for a webpage using HTML. Learn the basic of html here.
  4. Basic knowledge of simple server setup using NodeJS is essential for a participant on the backend track. You can learn how this is done here

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