We are still in the onboarding session. Most of today’s work wasn’t technical.We were exposed to the ALX community guidelines. I find these guidelines important because they serve as a guide as to how we can interact with our fellow software engineers cordially. It creates that level of boundary to what we can say or do to each other. In all, it teaches us to respectfully interact with each other.

Community

Emphasis has been placed on why there should be a community during this ALX SE program because you can as well be tasked with everything personally and evade the community. Sounds like a ‘lone man’ idea but that isn’t the best.

The ALX community has emphasized the community for the following reasons:

1. Networking:

wherever people are gathered, interaction is bound to take place. The people at ALX are big on us networking with people within the ALX community. Anyone and everyone is an asset in this program and we are encouraged to network with as many people as possible.

"Your network is your net worth." -- Porter Gale

2. Empowered Journey:

The Team at ALX believes that a community helps to empower our learning journey as every tool needed for us to become a software Engineer is available on the internet.

3. Accountability:

Communities serve as a support system while on the journey to greatness. Sometimes, solo learning can be overwhelming but learning with people is supportive. Being a part of a community helps us to be accountable for our learning journey. ‘You said it, then you must do it’.

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