Hello IT World! Why I’m 'Learning in Public' at sandycodesdev 🚀

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Hey guys! 👋

My name is Sandeepa (but you can call me Sandy). I’m a third-year software engineering undergraduate student at SLIIT.

If you are reading this, you are catching me right at the starting line of a massive career milestone: preparing myself for my very first software engineering internship!

As I dive deeper into the tech world, I know I’m going to discover a ton of new concepts, tools, and solutions. Instead of keeping all those study notes hidden away as a secret in my private folders, I decided to launch sandycodesdev. I want to practice a concept highly respected in the tech community: Learning in Public.

🎯 The Goal: My Bridge from Campus to Career

Let’s be honest—as undergraduate students, our universities give us the lovely “gift” of a highly stressful workload. I’ve been eating that stress for breakfast, and somehow, I’ve managed to maintain a 3.59 GPA so far! So, I’d like to think I have a pretty solid academic background and know how to balance a crazy schedule.

But what is the IT industry actually expecting from us?

There is a huge gap between university and the real world. In the industry, nobody cares about memorizing definitions just to pass a written exam. You have to build things that work.

This blog is my bridge from campus to career.

Moving forward, everything I learn, explore, and study will be documented right here. I’m writing this blog for two big reasons:

• To Master Core Concepts

Teaching is the absolute best way to truly understand something. If I can’t explain a complex topic simply on this blog, it means I don’t know it well enough yet. Writing here forces me to actually master what I learn.

• To Help My Fellow Peers

If I spend hours struggling to understand a specific concept or debugging a brutal problem, I want to publish the solution in a simple way. That way, the next student who faces the exact same situation can handle it easily. If someone says, “Ah, Sandy’s blog has the answer!”—that will be my absolute pride.

🛠️ What I’ll Be Documenting (While I Learn)

I am not an industry expert yet. I am an ambitious student actively figuring it out. As I prepare for interviews and industry roles, I will be writing about:

• OOP Concepts (Object-Oriented Programming)

• DSA & Algorithms (Data Structures & Algorithms)

• Full-Stack Development (Building actual apps)

• Software Architecture (How clean systems are structured)

• Testing & QA (Making sure code doesn’t break)

…and basically anything else IT-related that I break and fix along the way!

🤝 Let’s Connect!

Whether you are a fellow undergraduate going through the same grind, a senior developer with wise advice to share, or a recruiter looking for an engineer who loves to both build and communicate—I can’t wait to connect with you!

This is commit #1. Let’s build something great.

Until the next push,

Sandy 👨‍💻