The end of one story, the beginning of another
After a year and a half studying IT for Web development, it feels strange that everything has finally come to an end. Maybe I’m just not used to goodbyes yet, right? We were so tired of ourselfes sometimes, but in the end, what stays with us are the feeling of missing the people we spent each day with. We laughed a lot, we had silly days and moments — and yeah, the story came to an end. But what really matters is that we made the most of it.
What we learned in 11/2 years of IT classes
Even though I already learned a bunch of programming before, the Web IT course was surprisingly intuitive. We learned to look at programming and web development from a more professional, market-oriented point of view. When you start seeing websites as products, you have to think about a lot more: financial viability, client adoption, and so on. The course helped me see all that in a new way.
I got the chance to learn programming all over again with my classmates — in the end, I was learning C# pretty much the same way I learned Python. Over time, we also explored some other technologies I hadn’t played with much before. For our final project, we started with React.js. It was a cool experience, and I ended up dropping some of my bias against JavaScript-based web systems. Still... I do have *some* bias when it comes to using JavaScript for desktop or mobile apps.
We built an app with Flutter, tried working with Rust and Tauri, and even made an attempt to rebuild the whole thing in React Native. But we didn’t have time to finish, so we ended up keeping just a single page and the overall concept. It was kinda funny — in the end, we didn’t really have a working prototype, but we *did* have the idea and the commitment to make it real.
A quick review
Still, I felt the course was a bit too vague when it came to job opportunities. We were told about lots of them, but in the end... not much happened. We were supposed to visit companies and get to know the local industry, but in the end only me and one other classmate actually got contacted by a company. Or well, I kind of snuck in with him to see if there was a second opening. But yeah, we didn’t get to do many interviews or internships in the end.
Anyway, what we’re left with now are the good memories with our classmates — and that, at least, is something I’m proud of. Who knows? Maybe one day some of us will end up working together again.