# A developer's first year in the Guardian Digital Fellowship

DevFeed: [A developer's first year in the Guardian Digital Fellowship](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-digital-fellowship-is-your-foot-in-the-door-to-the-future-of-news-19956.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/may/02/the-digital-fellowship-is-your-foot-in-the-door-to-the-future-of-news>)

Author: Guardian Staff

Published: 2024-02-05T16:24:50Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

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## AI overview

A Guardian Digital Fellowship participant describes his first year learning software development through real editorial technology projects, workshops, team rotations, and production deployments. He discusses working with AWS Lambda, Scala, the Guardian API, data visualisations, and React while receiving support from teammates.

## Source excerpt

A developer in the Fellowship Scheme shares his experiences of his first year at the Guardian I clearly remember my early days in the Guardian's Digital Fellowship as a mixture of excitement and being totally overwhelmed. I had joined the editorial tools team, which builds all our digital tools for our journalists. At morning stand-up people were mentioning more acronyms than I thought I could ever remember. Like many of the fellows from previous years I don't have a computer science degree, or even a STEM background, and getting thrown into a department with more than 80 engineers can be intimidating! Fast forward a couple of months I had written my first AWS lambda, contributed to various projects and was regularly deploying production code unsupervised. The value of the fellowship lies in the fact that while you are given the time to develop your skills independently - you might choose to attend workshops run by other members of the department, learn a new framework and give a talk about it or work on a personal project and present it on the amazing Hack Day - from day one you are treated as an integral part of your team. That means that you get your hands dirty on real projects, learning and improving at an incredible pace. Continue reading...