I want to share an incredible experience I’ve had over the past few months 😊 It’s my training at the Binary Studio Academy 👨‍💻. In just 3 months, I learned more technologies than I did in a year of self-study. I’m still buzzing with emotions and want to write so much more, but I’ll try to keep it concise!

The Team Project Experience

The most exciting part of the training was the final stage - team project development. In 5 weeks, starting from scratch, we managed to build what I consider an amazing product. Our project SmartSpend 💱 💳 is a financial manager that helps optimize and track your financial expenses. You can read more about the features and technologies we used in the project repository 👈

What Made It Special

I’m incredibly grateful to our JS coaches Nikita Remeslov and Vitaliy Kalenichenko, who shared their knowledge and experience with us, motivated us, and patiently explained things we didn’t yet understand.

Huge thanks also to the team - 9 extraordinary developers and 2 amazing QA engineers - who worked day and night on the project development. 325 Done Tasks ✔ 😎

The daily morning standups and weekly demos with the Product Owner were unforgettable. Even more memorable were the late-night "calls" with some developers, searching for solutions until 2 AM 👀

Key Takeaways

The experience I gained at the Academy has prepared me to be valuable in my future company and quickly integrate into working processes. I highly recommend the Academy to anyone who wants to level up their skills and learn to work in a team 👍

P.S. Our coach told us that when we join commercial projects, we won’t feel much difference between the Academy project and commercial ones. I believe he was right, but I’m eager to verify his words in practice 😉