November cohort, you graduated!
Each time a student graduates from Alchemy, it's hard to say who is more proud: the student or their instructors.
These students dedicate more than 1,000 hours to learning how to be a professional software developer. It's an intense, close-knit learning period that feels something like starting a new full-time job and going back to college (at the same time).
Each person brought a wealth of experience from their previous career. Leaving roles as lawyers, IT experts, hotel staff, food service employees, graphic designers, musicians, and other careers, what they had in common was a desire to find a career with both financial stability and meaningful, challenging work. Which is why we couldn't be prouder to say: You did it!
You are now one of the few people in the workforce who can call themselves full-stack software engineers. You've trained just like you will show up in the workplace: as an independent contributor, and in pairs and small groups. By the end of this 25 weeks you've proven yourself capable of working in remote, collaborative teams and planning and coding full-stack software applications.
We can't wait to see what you do in your new careers.
Building Full Stack Applications
Before graduation, students split into teams and each built a full stack application in a short sprint. It's an opportunity to combine all of the coding skills they've learned over the past six months and practice their remote planning and collaboration skills.
Scroll down to learn more about each of these software developers and see the apps they built together (or view the list on GitHub).
Chromatic
An app that simulates synesthesia and an accessibility app for people to experience color through musical tones. Users can interact with a color wheel, or upload their own images and use an eyedropper to get information on colors and play the related musical notes. They can also save, update and delete individual swatches or combined palettes of color and sound.
Team Members: Sam Benatovich (GitHub), Alex Blair (GitHub), Arma Burton (GitHub), Clayton Knapp (GitHub), Philippe Ngom (GitHub)
