Rural Sourcing Inc

Summer 2019 Internship

June - August

This internship had 3 parts to it with the first 2 overlapping. It was an incredible learning experience where I got to learn 2 new languages, a new tool and learning the process of a project.

The first week was all about on-boarding and getting the new hire paperwork like with any new job but after that, our first month was dedicated to shadowing the project managers and their teams and seeing how they handle the business side of programming and completing a project for a client. We learned all about why doing daily stand-ups are important, sprints, retros and other meeting types. During this time, when we weren't shadowing, we also took the opportunity to learn on our own and self teach ourselves things we didn't know before. Some of the things I learned during this time was how to create an SVG via code rather than digital art software like InkScape, CSS animation, and Bootstrap.

The next two months we were split into two groups of four and began our internship project. My group agreed on the idea of creating an android/web app that would help indecisive people pick a place to eat by letting the app choose for them. A random restaurant generator.

Random Restaurant Generator

The Random Restaurant Generator was a group effort with every member of our 4 person group focused on their various tasks. I myself worked on UI and using Google APIs to offer special login features not available to app users without an account with our app.

The purpose of the app was to help indecisive users select a restaurant at random and provide an address, restaurant hours and a link to Google Maps to get directions to the location. We also wanted users to have the ability to save their favorite restaurants, mark the ones they've been to and the top most recently randomly selected restaurants but also wanted to have a "cloud" type storage for this by providing the user a way to login using their google account. If they weren't logged in, they only had access to the randomizer to select a restaurant of their choice.

We decided to use Angular and Googles API tools for front end and the two back end developers in our team chose C# and AWS for our back end and a free flavor of SQL for our database. To check out the app and our commit notes, check out my GitLab!