First Internship

I finally turned 18 and I'm out in the world, I landed my first internship, and let's just say that has been quite the experience.

A few things I've learned.

I already grew to love Android studio after a struggle to switch from Eclipse with Android Developer Tools. But it was well worth the switch, my productivity doubled, I felt more comfortable in the environment and everything went much better with different themes and a newer fresher more modern look.

The switch to Android studio happened back in January, but getting used to the IntelliJ platform was definitely useful in my first week as I was put to work using a framework I'd never even heard of.

My first project was on a framework called Spring Boot. It took me quite a few days to get used to Spring Boot and how it all connected, there's a lot being done in the background and I wasn't quite used to the way it used annotations yet. It's an amazing framework with lots of potential and lots of quick development. I learned an important lesson with that, you don't need to understand completely how something works, just understand that it does work and go with it.