On May 29, 2026, I walked into Virtual Height Pvt Ltd for our onboarding orientation. Walking into a real tech office as a 17-year-old developer always gives you a quick rush of adrenaline. You see the monitors, the desk setups, the glass partitions, and you wonder how much real building is actually going to happen here.
1. Meeting the Mentors & Workspace Ground Rules
The first hour was all about getting settled. We met the technical mentors, got our workspace guidelines, and went through the basic rules of the office. They introduced the lead trainer for our AI/ML cohort, Rashmi, who brings serious academic depth as a senior AI developer and PhD candidate.
2. Breaking Down the 2-Week Syllabus
Next, we opened up the curriculum roadmap. The plan is straightforward: start with core Python and command-line execution, move into prompt engineering and generative models, learn API communication with JSON, and wrap up Week 2 by building an interactive web chatbot powered by Flask and Hugging Face.
3. Setting Up the Laptop Sandbox
Before wrapping up, we got our machines ready: checking VS Code, verifying Python installations, and ensuring our terminal environments worked cleanly. Looking around the room, I could tell there was a wide range of experience levels in the cohort. Some people were opening a terminal for the first time, while I was already itching to hook up APIs and ship real code.