Making a document tree useful
My first development co-op was with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Staff used an internal platform to find forms while assisting immigrants and refugees. At the start, it was essentially a tree of documents.
My assignment let staff save, group, and share those documents across teams. I designed the interface, presented it to my manager and team, then worked directly with the platform’s proprietary C# API and file data types.
What stayed with me
What stayed with me was learning a real system quickly enough to contribute, and then learning how to carry it over into a completely different framework.