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It’s been 36days since Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) went on strike, few hours ago news began to spread that an agreement has been reached with the Federal Government (FG) and grey areas sorted out… Late yesternight, I went on Facebook to check out some feeds, a friend posted this and I commented.

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After sharing some experiences that I had during the strike with him, I felt I should make this my first write up on medium (not on my tech bloghttp://timtech4u.com.ng/) :-D
In the past months, I’ve traveled while activities were going on in school and participated as a Student at: NHEF Scholars Program https://www.thenhef.org/, Very Large Data Base Endowmenthttps://medium.com/@profwidom/dedicated-nigerian-host-assembles-300-students-from-around-the-country-ae88283bab72 and Dutch-Nigerian Student Business Challenge 2017https://www.tudelft.nl/2017/global/dutch-nigerian-student-business-challenge-2017/.

I’m a Computer Science Student at Bayero University Kano (BUK), Kano State. ASUU went on her recent strike on the 13th of August, 2017 and I waited till the 18th of August to ensure the strike was not just for a week, I decided traveling to Abuja, the Head Office of a Software Company http://flexisaf.com/ where I work part-time as a Developer.


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On getting to Abuja, I met with a colleague which has been working on a product I was once part of, he told me of the recent changes on the project and I was able to deduct that their’s a few more work to be done. The changes on the project was to make it better and flexible for other developers, he ensured every part was modularized and it was easy for me to pick up. I had to struggle with my health for like a week but I knew something better was coming.

As a Developer, maintaining codes previously rewritten is often harder than writing newer codes, I was actually maintaining codes I did not write and writing more :-D


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Learning
However, I took a bold step of staying up late at night to learn those newer concepts, technologies, I even purchased a Coursehttp://udemy.com/. This helped me in learning alot over the short time of my stay and also increased my contribution to the project.

Events
I had the opportunity to attend a meetup and a national conference, of which I learnt alot more and also met with mentors.


Studying
I won’t be a good student if I’d spent zero time on my school activities during the strike period, it was an opportunity for me to learn from another colleague.
As computer scientists, Data Structures and Algorithms are very important for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming.
He gave me resources and some tips to scale through the learning complexities.


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I’m grateful to all those that played a role in helping me achieve all I’ve wrote about, henceforth, I’ll be writing technical postshttp://www.timtech4u.com.ng/ on technologies I'm digging into such as Writing Clean Codehttp://cleancoder.com/, Dockerhttps://www.docker.com/, PostgreSQLhttps://www.postgresql.org/, DRFhttp://www.django-rest-framework.org/, Vuejshttps://vuejs.org/, Webpackhttps://webpack.js.org/, Algorithmshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm… This would surely help me better in understanding how they’re used.

I’ll encourage everyone out there especially students to make good use of opportunities they come across, you could do more than you ever imagined, you just need to start.

Originally Posted on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@timtech4u/ASUU-strike-opportunities-for-students-35b3679b86ed

I made 458k during the strike... using my ICT skills. It was awesome.

greatnaija01:
I made 458k during the strike... using my ICT skills. It was awesome.

Bros bros!!
Bros bros!!
And I know you in person oooo

lol... for your second life abi? wetin go bring me to know any AAU pikin.... taaa forget da tin. If u know me, by now u go don understand d level

shawnfamous:

Bros bros!!
Bros bros!!
And I know you in person oooo

greatnaija01:
I made 458k during the strike... using my ICT skills. It was awesome.

Unto G-boy levels. lolz

Nice one... +ve strike. FP

greatnaija01:
lol... for your second life abi? wetin go bring me to know any AAU pikin.... taaa forget da tin. If u know me, by now u go don understand d level

hahahaha

timex4u:
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It’s been 36days since Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) went on strike, few hours ago news began to spread that an agreement has been reached with the Federal Government (FG) and grey areas sorted out… Late yesternight, I went on Facebook to check out some feeds, a friend posted this and I commented.

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After sharing some experiences that I had during the strike with him, I felt I should make this my first write up on medium (not on my tech bloghttp://timtech4u.com.ng/) :-D
In the past months, I’ve traveled while activities were going on in school and participated as a Student at: NHEF Scholars Program https://www.thenhef.org/, Very Large Data Base Endowmenthttps://medium.com/@profwidom/dedicated-nigerian-host-assembles-300-students-from-around-the-country-ae88283bab72 and Dutch-Nigerian Student Business Challenge 2017https://www.tudelft.nl/2017/global/dutch-nigerian-student-business-challenge-2017/.

I’m a Computer Science Student at Bayero University Kano (BUK), Kano State. ASUU went on her recent strike on the 13th of August, 2017 and I waited till the 18th of August to ensure the strike was not just for a week, I decided traveling to Abuja, the Head Office of a Software Company http://flexisaf.com/ where I work part-time as a Developer.


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On getting to Abuja, I met with a colleague which has been working on a product I was once part of, he told me of the recent changes on the project and I was able to deduct that their’s a few more work to be done. The changes on the project was to make it better and flexible for other developers, he ensured every part was modularized and it was easy for me to pick up. I had to struggle with my health for like a week but I knew something better was coming.

As a Developer, maintaining codes previously rewritten is often harder than writing newer codes, I was actually maintaining codes I did not write and writing more :-D


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Learning
However, I took a bold step of staying up late at night to learn those newer concepts, technologies, I even purchased a Coursehttp://udemy.com/. This helped me in learning alot over the short time of my stay and also increased my contribution to the project.

Events
I had the opportunity to attend a meetup and a national conference, of which I learnt alot more and also met with mentors.


Studying
I won’t be a good student if I’d spent zero time on my school activities during the strike period, it was an opportunity for me to learn from another colleague.
As computer scientists, Data Structures and Algorithms are very important for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming.
He gave me resources and some tips to scale through the learning complexities.


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I’m grateful to all those that played a role in helping me achieve all I’ve wrote about, henceforth, I’ll be writing technical postshttp://www.timtech4u.com.ng/ on technologies I'm digging into such as Writing Clean Codehttp://cleancoder.com/, Dockerhttps://www.docker.com/, PostgreSQLhttps://www.postgresql.org/, DRFhttp://www.django-rest-framework.org/, Vuejshttps://vuejs.org/, Webpackhttps://webpack.js.org/, Algorithmshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm… This would surely help me better in understanding how they’re used.

I’ll encourage everyone out there especially students to make good use of opportunities they come across, you could do more than you ever imagined, you just need to start.

Originally Posted on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@timtech4u/ASUU-strike-opportunities-for-students-35b3679b86ed

Wow that's great sir I really admire your passion
I would love this thread to be revived especially for this our ASUU strike that is ongoing