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mpowa:
There is no case to answer here. it's unfortunate the guy had to die, but police can't accuse anyone of anything.They were partying, they were having fun, irresponsibly though, but it wasn't like the guy was drinking poison and they encouraged him or he wants to shoot himself and they encouraged him. It's not everyday people die of drinking, it was unfortunate it turned to death, but nobody will be accused of murder or conspiracy, it was fun gone bad.

It was fun gone bad; true.
They were partying; true.
Is partying illegal? No.
Would the Police ask questions when someone ends up dead hours after attending a party? Definitely.

And the Police is not accusing anyone of anything yet. They only want to know how a guy who was drinking some hours ago suddenly ended up in a hospital DOA (Dead On Arrival). But you entirely missed the point I was trying to make in my post.

I should have said complicity, not conspiracy (my bad) and complicity is a very strange dice in law and people get convicted for it on the most ridiculous and flimsy excuses you can ever hear. And one of those reasons can be encouraging someone to take an unreasonable amount of alcohol (reason number 1) and an autopsy report which indicates that the person died as a consequence of that alcohol intake (reason number 2). The key word here is unreasonable. If it was one shot or two, no one would be making noise. But 30 (or 40 as some people claim)? Damn; that's high. And please note those two conditions.

Complicity is the participation in a completed criminal act of an accomplice, a partner in the crime who aids or encourages (abets) other perpetrators of that crime, and who shared with them an intent to act to complete the crime. A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of a crime if they purpose the completion of a crime, and toward that end, if that person solicits or [b]encourages the other person, or aids or attempts to aid in planning or committing the crime, or has legal duty to prevent that crime but fails to properly make an effort to prevent it..

Is drinking a crime? No.
Did someone end up dead? Yes.
Was the death from natural causes? No.
Was a crime committed? Maybe.
If reason number 2 that I mentioned above was fulfilled, then the Police would ask if they encouraged him when he was taking that alcohol.
Did they? Yes.
Do you now get my point?
In the end, that autopsy report saved them from a lot of Police wahala. Can we both agree on that?

ijekul:
you're a learner.if you were a lawyer I would have been really disappointed. whats the coloration between that scenario you painted and This issue? na wa o

simiolu1:
Bros, I would like to explain some things to you about murder cases. Please read along.

1. A lady is pregnant and tells her friend about it. The said friend "suggests" that she aborts it.

2. The lady goes to someone else; probably the boyfriend and tells the individual she wants to abort a pregnancy and the person gives her money for it.

3. The lady goes to a Doctor who conducts the abortion.

4. The lady dies after saying all that happened. And an autopsy report indicates she died from reasons relating to an abortion that was not properly done.

Under the Nigerian constitution; the Doctor is guilty of murder, the person who gave her money for the abortion knowing that she wanted to abort the baby and the friend that "suggested" the abortion are both guilty of conspiracy.

If you dont believe, ask a lawyer or police officer. That is why you should always pray never to be caught in the middle of a case.

Applying that to this scenario, Davido and co actively encouraged an individual to drink an unreasonable amount of alcohol. Then the person dies. If the autopsy report had indicated that the cause of death was directly related to the alcohol intake, all those that encouraged the guy to take that alcohol whether it was a bet or not are in deep poo.

But luckily for Davido, the said autopsy report indicates that the guy died from reasons unrelating to the alcohol.

So that autopsy report is actually good news for Davido. And he does not need to prove his innocence on Instagram; he should go to the police with the truth. If they believe him, his name would be cleared. And with the way the Police have handled this so far, I don't think anyone can cry "witch-hunt"

I did you a favour by showing you the correlation between both cases. If you can't see it by now, then I can't help you more than this.

Thank you

The way I see it, the woman's husband is guilty of something. It may or may not be adultery. And chances are, it would be adultery.

The man can't eat his cake and have it and the woman, in my opinion, handled the case according to what she thought was best. Instead of shouting on her husband, she reported him to a fellow man whose wife might be a culprit in this too.

So, she left the decision of what should happen to the woman's husband and he too did what he thought was best. The woman is actually smart, and her husband would probably be afraid of how she would deal with future cases of infidelity from him. And we also don't know if this is the first case of infidelity on the part of her husband. So no one can say if she acted based on that too.

If I were the woman, I would kuku carry myself to the man's family and report myself to them. I would ask them to then plead to my husband on my behalf. If the man's family is responsible, he would then have to explain to them what a married woman's panties were doing in his pockets; then he would have to apologise to his wife about his philandering ways.

In the end, he begs the woman and knows she ain't a fool that can be played around like a football.

madjune:
Can you see your brain?

Now, did they put a gun to the Tagbo guy head?

Bros, I would like to explain some things to you about murder cases. Please read along.

1. A lady is pregnant and tells her friend about it. The said friend "suggests" that she aborts it.

2. The lady goes to someone else; probably the boyfriend and tells the individual she wants to abort a pregnancy and the person gives her money for it.

3. The lady goes to a Doctor who conducts the abortion.

4. The lady dies after saying all that happened.
And an autopsy report indicates she died from reasons relating to an abortion that was not properly done.

Under the Nigerian constitution; the Doctor is guilty of murder, the person who gave her money for the abortion knowing that she wanted to abort the baby and the friend that "suggested" the abortion are both guilty of conspiracy.

If you dont believe, ask a lawyer or police officer. That is why you should always pray never to be caught in the middle of a case.

Applying that to this scenario, Davido and co actively encouraged an individual to drink an unreasonable amount of alcohol. Then the person dies. If the autopsy report had indicated that the cause of death was directly related to the alcohol intake, all those that encouraged the guy to take that alcohol whether it was a bet it not are in deep poo.

But luckily for Davido, the said autopsy report indicates that the guy died from reasons unrelating to the alcohol.

So that autopsy report is actually good news for Davido. And he does not need to prove his innocence on Instagram; he should go to the police with the truth. If they believe him, his name would be cleared. And with the way the Police have handled this so far, I don't think anyone can cry "witch-hunt"

A lot of these footballers playing with the big clubs can afford a lot of luxuries. I watch their videos on YouTube and if one does not have a strong mind, it would lead to depression.

Even FC Barcelona has a deal with Audi and that "small boy" Dembele received his Audi the day he was unveiled.

The last time I counted, CR7 had 12 automobiles. I would not call them cars. Last time I counted too, Messi had 10.

I'm actually not surprised Ronaldo has a Chiron; Buggatti used him for an advert of the car. Who knows if it was even a gift or if he had been given a rebate off the car?

Sold!!!

Unmarshalled:
Pls guys how long does it take andela to reply after the test

It might take a while. I think they send out mails in batches. I remember Chimdi (the programme coordinator) tweeting that they received over 1000 applications in the 1st 24 hours after the application was made public.

So you can imagine the amount of applications they would be handling by now. One thing that is certain is that the reply would surely come; fret not.

lovemaths:
Yes I did. I have added the certificate to my CV. Who knows, it might increase my bride price.

Bride wetin? Well, I have only used the certificate as WhatsApp dp as I no get CV. Would have enrolled in the intermediate track but I have a lot on my hands.

Mind if I send a PM?

johnime:
IT Intern

ABUJA

Job Description

Our client an Abuja based online merchant one-stop-shop, urgently required a male IT Intern for one year with strong experience in Websites Maintenance, Server Administration, Content Layout Management, Vendor Management in the Online Market Domain.
Responsibilities

Maintenance of websites.
Ensure the web servers, hardware and software are operating accurately.
Generate and revise web pages.
Study and analyse site traffic.
Configure web servers such as Apache.
Regulate and manage access rights of different users on website.
Create and modify appearance and setting of site.
Run the site to see if there are any parts that are challenging to use.
Resolve links that don't work and pictures that aren't appearing properly.
Modify files to small sizes so sites load faster.
Competencies

Databases: MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access
Oracle Software: Adobe Premiere Pro cc, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Audition, After Effects, Media Encoder, Bridge, Final Cut Pro cc (Level 1 User Certified), Compressor, Avid Interplay (ipMAM), MediaGrid, Soundtrack Pro, Avid Media Composer, Languages: ColdFusion, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript.
Method of Application
Applicants should send their CV's to: career@protegemanagement.com.ng also copy obedizekor@gmail.com

Note: This position is only for Abuja based residents and candidates CV from other States will not be perused.

Slavery. Combining the job of a DB engineer, Digital marketer, video editor and front end developer into one all in the name of internship

lovemaths:
Yes. 1.0 was only android. 2.0 is for android, web design and product design.

Sharp girl. I hope you finished 1.0. Was part of it too

Chommieblaq:
I sent you a pm, I also need the video for digital marketing and programming.

Thanks

PM replied

beatsbyj2g:
lol I know it's open source that's why its possible for me to actually hack it and use it publicly with no legal issues.

D hack is not a hack per say before angular 2 came out I was using angular js and a lot of stuff that readily comes bundled with angular2 typescript does not come like that.

So the angularjs I use has a truckload of stuff that helps me work faster

Ok. A lot of people visit github and download what ever seems interesting to them without really knowing how to put those little extra nifty features to use. Just wanted to be sure you are not one of them

beatsbyj2g:
okay would give it a trial, thanks am more familiar with Digital ocean but sadly no free tier.

The only thing digital ocean does is to simply the creation of a server. With AWS, you only need to create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) once. Once you have everything all set up the way you want, you can save that Image and spin it off later with the clicks of a few buttons.

But getting that first setup up and running is what a lot of people run from

beatsbyj2g:
Kk I currently use angularjs (hacked version) and expressjs add me on Whatsapp 08105460858 so we could share ideas on how to build the platform

Why are you using a hacked version of Angular? Last time I checked, it's Open Source.

beatsbyj2g:
Hi am currently on the intermediate track but would be doing my assessment test soon (busy with school tests for now). Am already a full stack javascript web developer the only issue I have is hosting the nodejs app on a free host ...

I would advice you host with AWS. Amazon has servers (web and database) that are eligible for free tier.

Alexgeneration:
Please can I get the video tutorial for programming and digital marketing. Thanks

Send a PM.

airsaylongcon:
How he can say Facebook isn't a tech company is baffling. Does he have any idea neural network algorithms been developed and worked on by Facebook software engineers? I guess when all you interact with Facebook only as a user then U'd be clueless about the heavy lifting on the back end

Facebook that created React, React Native, GraphQL, HHVM, Immutable JS, Haxl, Fresco, etc is not a tech company? Then what is a tech company? The guy no answer me.

Maybe he should visit their github page and see what we're talking about.

https://github.com/facebook?page=1

majekdom2:
tolet and hotels.ng are actually other people's idea, so it will be hard to scale outside Nigeria. Hotels.ng is an idea of likes of airbnb, trip advisor and many others. Put simply, online merchandise in Nigeria is not exclusively innovative. I understand cacawa's point tho, Tech companies in Nigeria are realy not solving critical problems or being innovative as one would expect. [s]Startups are loosing money because many of them are copying.[/s] Whilst it is not bad to copy, it is best to copy in an innovative way. Google copied yahoo in an innovative way, they were not even out to make money, they wanted to just build something for fun. Facebook copied likes of hi5, my space but wanted to do something exclusively for college students i.e like an online alumni network. Our startups need to copy innovatively whilst understanding the market

I'll address the bolded.

Every idea is a copy or metamorphosis of another idea. Mention any idea from the top of your head (whether you thought about it) or its already in existence; I'll pick it apart and show you that the above statement is true. It is simply the law of nature and it is true in Science, Technology, Business, Psychology and so on. So, marketplaces are not new; they are very old--eBay, Craigslist etc.

While I understand your point, innovation is not some rocket science we think it to be. Because at the end of the day; your service, product or solution should solve your user's/customer's problem/challenge in the simplest way possible. Customers don't care about the technology; the question is what can it do for them? If it does that thing successfully and delights them in the process; it is innovative.

How do you think people in Nigeria felt when they could buy Nokia 3310, purchase that "thing" called sim card, put it in their phones and call anywhere in the world? Europe and America had been using telephone lines for a very looooooong time. But to the Nigerian; the GSM was innovative. How do you also think it felt when people were now charged per second instead of the per minute billing that MTN and Econet had been known for?

My point: innovation is in the complex engineering problems and it is also in the simple things. It can be as complex as a self-driving car, and it can also be as simple as pricing or mode of payment. That is why Nigeria is the only country in the world that Uber accepts cash. That is also why Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world that e-commerce stores do pay-on-delivery. That my bro is also innovation.

So the question I would ask you is this: would you start a self-driving car company in Nigeria? Would you start something like SpaceX in Africa? The point is simple: people look first and foremost to their immediate environment for problems and challenges to solve. When that solution becomes successful, they then look to expand it.

That is why Nigeria critically needs companies like LifeBank to handle the logistics of moving blood from where it is to where it is needed so that patients would not die. That is also why Nigerians need something like Kudi.ai that allows them to make financial transactions from Facebook messenger. That is also why Nigerians still need something like Hotels.ng to allow them book for hotels from the comfort of their phones. Because in advanced countries, these problems have been solved ten times over.

Startups loose money for a lot of reasons; pegging it at "copying" is at best simplistic.

daraghdave:
This one you are mentioning payment processors... are you a banker?

I'm actually a developer. But to be frank, a lot of startups in Nigeria are loosing money. But I am quite sure Flutterwave, Paystack and Hotels.ng are making profits. While it would be very easy to scale the first two to render services to the whole continent; Hotels.ng and ToLet would have the hardest time expanding beyond the shores of Nigeria.

So I viewed the companies from the POV of an investor and ranked them accordingly

Cacawa2:
Listen, these are not tech startups.

These are websites. Just websites.

For example, Microsoft is a tech company, Facebook is not a tech company.

When we talk about ICT, Info, Comm and Tech, some companies are simply Info...e.g Facebook. Some are strictly Comm...e.g MTN, While some combine all, e.g Microsoft which runs Hotmail, Skype,Windows, Xbox, PC, Laptops, etc.

Google has began to migrate from being just an Info company (www.google.com, google maps, translator, gmail, etc) to becoming a communications company (hangout, google talk, etc) and also now a Tech company (Google specs, Nexus Phone, etc)

Nigerians would even call Nairaland a TECH company....Illiteracy at it's peak.

1. Please Sir, for this sake of this discussion, what is a tech company?

2. And why do you say facebook is not a tech company? Because it does not manufacture a hardware product? Is that your benchmark of what a tech company is?

3. Is a software company a tech company?

In the world of startups, you should know that there are different categories of companies. They include but are not limited to software (artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and those you term to be just websites), hardware (robotics, phones, self-driving cars, electric aeroplanes), biotech etc. Now you should also know that these companies create products or services for different industries. That not all of them manufacture physical products does not mean they do not have products or services.

And that my bro is where you mixed it up. Microsoft started as a software tech company (Operating Systems and Microsoft Office) but later branched into other industries (gaming, music, cloud infrastructure etc). Google started out as a search engine but is also branching out into other industries. Same with Amazon. So if Facebook decides to remain in the social media industry, that does not mean it is not a tech company?

As a developer, I would also state as-a-matter-of-fact that websites that have logic embedded in them are softwares! Yeah; you read me right. If you are a not a developer/programmer, please don't try to argue this statement. In fact, what people call artificial intelligence are actually algorithms powered by machine learning. And some algorithms can be as short as 3 lines of code!

My point, facebook is not just a website with only HTML and CSS; it is a software. It uses facial recognition algorithms, machine learning, etc that would practically blow your mind.

Fun fact: there are over 10,000 versions of facebook running simultaneously!!!!!!!!

Fun fact: Apple (a hardware company) partnered with Snapchat (a social media company whose facial recognition software is impeccable) to create the facial ID that runs on the recently released iPhones.

I bet you did not know that .

If Seun knew what he was doing, Nairaland would have actually become a tech company too. And before you scream blue murder, I'll ask: what is the difference between Stack Overflow and Nairaland? They are both forums, but the technology that powers SO is one of a kind.

So back to my first question: what do you define as a tech company?

harmbhrosz:
oga just because a firm solely operate on internet doesn't make it a tech company, we are literate enough to understand this na, internet is part of a technology that stands as a platform for easy connectivity.

Facebook is a social media company with the aim of connecting people on the internet,

jumia and konga are both market place just like a shopping mall but instead of it being physical like every other mall, it's presence is felt on the internet and so are the rest

Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Apple, Canon, even Amazon (which now produce tech appliances) are companies that should be regarded as Tech companies pls

just because Julius Berger uses technology machines to construct doesn't make them a tech company, just because Channels TV uses cameras internet and other tech in running their company doesn't make them a tech company.

According to Wikipedia; A technology company (often tech company) is a type of business entity that focuses primarily on the development and manufacturing of technology. Apple, IBM, Lenovo, Huawei, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others, are considered prototypical technology companies. Information technology (IT) companies and high tech companies are subsets of technology companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_company

According to Wikipedia too; Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

Wikipedia defines high-tech as "High technology, often abbreviated to high tech (adjective forms high-technology, high-tech or hi-tech) is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available. As of the onset of the 21st century, products considered high tech are often those that incorporate advanced computer electronics. However, there is no specific class of technology that is high tech—the definition shifts and evolves over time—so products hyped as high-tech in the past may now be considered to be everyday or outdated technology."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tech

So going by the screenshot below, those industries are actually tech industries!

tunde89:
please give the summary of the assessment and the aspects touched.

Guy, this kind of assessment does not need overthinking. just do it. No be Shell assessment

princepet:
Please I also need this video tutorials, please

princepet:
Am seriously in need of this tutorials.

Location: Lagos

Watsapp: 08060190510

I can meet you anywhere in Lagos.

princepet:
Please I also need this video tutorials, please

Guys, send me a PM, I'll reply your PM in less than 6 hours. My location is at Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.

Also, register for ALC 2.0. The beginner courses require no experience whatsoever and it is free.

Neyoor:
I need this please but my location is Ibadan/Ilorin.

If you can figure out a way to get a flash drive or external hard drive to me, then why not?

Biko go register for ALC 2.0; it is free

https://andela.com/alcwithGoogle

Jpaul16:
A lot of tech startups have graced the Nigerian tech scene in the past ten years, with only a few making it to the top, while others fell due to the gravitational pull of the challenges they faced. While there are so many of them in their respective fields, I have listed just seven of them that really stand out.

Konga

Konga is an online ecommerce website where people can search for goods of almost any kind and order them. Their orders are then processed and delivered to them at their doorstep. As of 2016, konga was worth about $34million and had over 180, 000 users, 80% of them acessing the site via mobile phones. In 2014 konga recieved $25million in a series b funding and $60million in august 2012. Konga was founded by Sim Shagaya in 2012 and is Nigeria’s biggest online shopping mall.

Paga

Paga is a mobile payment service founded by Tayo Oviosu. Customers can use paga to send money to anyone in Nigeria either from their mobile phones or any internet enabled device or through paga agents spread across the country. Founded in 2009, Paga has grown to become one of the most used fintech service in Nigeria. In less than a year after launching operations, paga had accumulated over 32,000 active users and processed transactions worth over $1.6million in volume. As of 2016 it has processed transactions worth over $156 billion. Paga recieved $13million in series B funding in october 2016.

Hotels.ng

Hotels.ng is the brain child of Mark Essien. He noticed the lack of online hotel booking platforms in Nigeria and promptly went ahead to solve it, and hotels.ng was born. It is an online hotel booking platform where you can browse through thousands of hotels and book their desired rooms. In 2015, hotels.ng recieved $1.2million in investment funding. The company has over 5000 hotels in its database and has seen over $2.3million in transactions and had hit a revenue of 480,000 per month in 2014.

Irokotv

Irokotv is an online Nollywood movie streaming website, where users have access to thousands of nollywood movies. Irokotv works on a subscription basis; 3000 Naira per year, though they recently began offering data free downloads at kiosks of their agents scattered throughout Nigeria. Irokotv has over 65,000 subscribers, most of which are located in the diaspora. Launched in December 2011 by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter, IrokoTv recieved $8 million from Tiger Global in 2012 and Kinnevik invested $2 million in irokotv. Irokotv has often been called the Netflix of Africa.

Printivo

Printivo was founded in 2013 by three young men; Ibukun oloyede, Oluyomi ojo and Ayodeji Adeogun. According yo Oluyomi Ojo the CEO, he saw a niche that was underserved and that was why he and his cofounders set up printivo.Pritivo is an online do it yourself card design and printing service. It allows users to design the cards of their choice, choosing from lots of available templates, and after designing, order for copies to be printed and sent to their doorstep.In 2015 printivo closed a six figure investment seed from EchoVc and was recently selected among the 20th batch of 500 startups’ program.

Tolet.com.ng

Tolet.com.ng is an online property rental portal where users can search for houses amongst thousands listed and get in touch with agents.. It was founded in 2013 by four visionary young men: Fikayo Ogundipe, Sulaimon Balogun, Oladipo Eludire and Oluwaseyi Ayeni. As of 2016 tolet.com.ng had over 20000 listings on its portal. The company recieced seed funding from Jason Njoku’s SPARK.NG, and in 2016 it raised $1.2 million in series A funding led by malaysia based Frontier Digital ventures.

Jobberman

While many students were fretting over what would befall them after they graduated from school, three men were busy solving the problem. Jobberman, an online jobboard where companies can post job vacancies and the unemployed can find jobs is the work of Opeyemi Awoyemi, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Olalekan Olude.In 2011 a New York based fund with investments in facebook and linkedin became an investor in jobberman. In 2015 One Africa Media acquired a 100% stake in the company. Jobberman was also listed among the top Tech startups by forbes in 2012. 

Source [url]techburn.com.ng[/url]

While I agree with majority of the companies you have there, please remove Jobberman from the list; it simply does not belong there.

Rather than include Jobberman, I would include Flutterwave--founded by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and co, flutterwave is Africa's Stripe. Apart from having payment solutions built in house like Barter, flutterwave also powers other payment solutions like Kudi.ai and many more. In fact, their API is so extensible, a lot of people in the payments solution business would prefer to build on it rather than building from scratch. Iyin used to be a co-founder at Andela before he left to start Flutterwave. In the less than 2 years of its existence, Flutterwave has processed over $1B in transactions.

https://techpoint.ng/2017/08/01/flutterwave-raises-10-million-dollars/

While I agree that ToLet.com.ng is growing, I would rather put Paystack up there than ToLet. Paystack was founded by Shola and was the first African company to be funded by Y Combinator. If you don't know YC, please use Google. Some months ago, they crossed processing over N1B monthly. Paystack has also integrated its solution with Shopify and its growing popularity amongst Nigerian merchants is due to its ease of use and very low transaction cost. Paystack charges 1.5% for each transaction it processes and N100 for every payment above N1,500 or N2,500 (I am not sure which one). If you don't think this is a big deal, compare it to the 30% Google and Apple charge to use their payment infrastructure. Did I also mention that their API is sweet to use?

https://blog.paystack.com/the-road-to-1-billion-in-monthly-transaction-volume-at-paystack-2f0ca4b6edbb

Well, this is just my opinion and you can agree or disagree with it.

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azuson:
i know some people will question me but what i i am saying is true,these are the advantages of marrying woman with AS Genotype:

1 they conceive easily:woman with As genotype conceive easily because of their blood composition
2 their body is usually warmer : they have warmer body than other types,if you are man that do feel cold in the night she is a perfect match for you
3 they are malaria resistant: most of this Genotype do not fall sick easily especially Malaria
4 most of them usually give birth to a male child than female child.

this is my observation and it does not base on scientific proof.

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Fixed.

ebroheem:
What type of experience is needed before going for the course and how many months training?

It's a remote training; 3 months. No experience is required for the beginner courses. But for the intermediate courses, you will submit a project as part of your application. So experience is required for the intermediate courses

Ganjafama:
I need these materials seriously too bro.Unfortunately I don't have access to my nairaland pm email anymore. Please sir help a man in need. You can reach me via sagayt@gmail dot com . I am in Warri.

Check your email

[quote author=preciousnobel post=61033979][/quote]PM me

ajsans:
I want to use this medium to specially thank simiolu1 for his generosity he rendered to me yesterday by giving me most of his video tutorials on web development.
Honestly words cannot describe how nice he was. He had to forgo his activities for that day just to help me out.
Simi honestly I appreciate everything from the bottom of my heart and also the lecture you gave to me not forgetting the meal as well. God bless you.

Freely you have received...

preciousnobel:
Good! What department is that? Did you use statistical software packages? I would like to read your paper, what is the topic and the journal ? I 'm a lautech student (300 level though).

Department of Pure and Applied Physics. Quite a few of us in my set published our projects as papers but I think I was the first. The link below would download the pdf version of the paper.

http://www.ijser.org/onlineResearchPaperViewer.aspx?On-the-study-of-optical-and-structural-properties-of-zinc-oxide-thin-films-by-sol-gel-dip-coating-technique.pdf

Journal name is IJSER.

I did my analysis with excel. The lab equipment used for sample analysis generated data and saved the data into excel spreadsheets. This made my job much easier as the only thing I needed to do was to use equations to generate additional data and plot graphs. But the generated data was massive and scary at first. It was when my supervisor started explaining the things I was going to do that I was no longer afraid. Imagine getting results from the lab, opening the excel spreadsheet and seeing columns A - M and row 7 - 1304.

But doing the analysis myself made me know how to use Excel. When I went to print the graphs (I did colour printing for them) someone requested that I should come help him do his analysis. I no even answer the guy.

Andela is back with its ALC (Andela Learning Community) programme but the programme is now offering more courses. The programme sponsored by Google in partnership with Udacity now offers Web design, Product design and Android development. This is a chance to learn programming from world class tutors while interacting with people from all over the country.

ALC 1.0 was all about android programming but 2.0 includes web design, product design and of course android development. As a participant in ALC 1.0, I recommend this programme to everyone; it is absolutely worth it. For those who are certificate junkies; the certificates given out are endorsed by Google and Udacity.

If you have any questions; you can ask me here, or ask Andela Nigeria on Twitter https://twitter.com/Andela_Nigeria

To apply, visit https://andela.com/alcwithGoogle

phetty:
I dont have any educational background in ICT, but I have learnt HTML, CSS, and still learning JavaScript. I believe the three languages above are what majorly constitute web design.

While learning, I came across new terms such as UI/UX design and front end design. I would like the gurus in the house to briefly school me on those terms in a layman language.

Secondly, apart from the three languages I mentioned above, what other languages do I need to learn to become a UI/UX or frontend designer?

Cc:
tessygirl
yinkeys
attention007
simiolu1

Immediately you start writing markup (HTML), you have begun some form of programming. So technically, it is no longer design but development. A lot of people think the terms are synonymous but they aren't. And understanding the difference between them would save you from confusion later on.

Design does not involve any form of coding; that is why design tools include Photoshop, Balsamiq, Gravit, Sketch etc while development tools include text editors (notepad, notepad++, VS Code, Atom, Sublime etc) plus other software depending on your use case.

There is nothing like front-end design; only front-end development. What training schools and people tag as front-end design is actually User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design.

UX/UI design is the process of transforming a digital product from an idea to a concept or enhancing user satisfaction, usability and accessibility of a digital product.

The reason I said concept for the first part of my definition is that design processes do not directly produce the digital product. It's like the way architects draw building plans. The building plan is not the final outcome; it still has to be built with brick and mortar. But it is a concept that if followed, would result in a building that people can live in. So for digital products, the UX/UI design process produces wireframes, mockups, high fidelity pictures of how the digital product would look like. It also produces personas, user stories etc.

Read the links below to understand more

https://medium.com/usable/rethinking-hotels-ng-886f6e25f1bf

https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-got-rejected-by-apple-music-so-i-redesigned-it-b7e2e4dc64bf

To answer your last question. Technically, you don't need to learn any programming language to be a UX/UI designer. What you need to learn about instead are colours, composition, sketching, user experience research, design guidelines and patterns, and then design tools like the ones I listed above.

But this is where I need to say this caveat: a lot of UX/UI designers write HTML, CSS and Javascript. This is not to say you must learn how to code when you are a designer. But writing HTML, CSS and JS when you are a bad ass designer would get you hired before someone who is only a designer. It is simply a case of killing two birds with the same stone. In the thread below, a guy comes up with the design, then other guys jump on it.

https://radar.techcabal.com/t/ui-with-figma-design-delivered-daily/13299

But the road to becoming an experienced front-end developer is still long. You have a lot of ground ahead of you. See attached pictures and the youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzRwzY7G-k&t=681s