I spent my first week at the company mostly concentrating on learning some softwares and understanding the fundamentals of the task I would be doing during this internship.
I started off the week by learning git immersion. Using Git I learned how to create repositories, commit changes, merge repositories, and push any changes made in the repositories using the git commands.
Next, I was briefed on the area I would be focusing on during the internship which is the API. After grasping the structure and the business rules provided to me I extracted out entities, fields and relations and came up with a Crow’s Foot Notation (CRD) of the business. Verification of payments was a challenge I faced while forming the CRD, as there are multiple means of payment with possibility of multiple transactions. However, after having some productive conversations with my supervisor I was able to finish it.
Lastly, I was introduced to the Stocks API code since I would be creating a API therefore going through the Stocks API would really help me understand the concepts and fundamentals of RESTful API and how to test it using Test Driven Development (TDD).