The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.
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1. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3): -"Fluency builds understanding," flash cards, vocab review, practice on the keyboard everyday. Using these stratagies will help me learn this material. -Things are different in this industry for women v men and we all need to be aware of that and try to make it a better place where everyone feels comfortable. -Some days you are a garbage developer, it happenes, move past it! -There are different ways to learn the same material.
2. How to Google Programming Problems Effectively by Lulu Li (15 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3): -Be specific, it's important to leave out unnecessary words. Stick to object, verb, and language when possible. -Stackoverflow was the first reccomended site -The point of using the google machine is NOT for finding a solution, it is for you to gain an understanding.
3. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2): -Experienced programmers use google all the time! -Don't just copy and paste.
4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)
- Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
- Tip 2: When you use quotes it makes the search more specific. Ex: Candy apple red car will give you the results for all those words in any order, you may get candy apples or cars, "candy apple red car" will get you cars with that paint job.
- Tip 3: Using a hyphen is like using a minus sign, you are taking away whatever version of the word you do NOT want to use. Ex: Duck-bird, meaning i'm looking for the action not the animal, limiting my search to no sites with duck as a bird.
- Tip 4: Using colon will only search on the site that is provided after the colon. Ex: Bus pass:rtd.com
- Tip 9: Using OR you can search for two phrases at one time. Ex: carmel apple pie OR apple pie will search google for both phrases at once.
- Tip 13: Sound smart. Don't use slang. Ex: "How much does gas cost in Denver?" Replaced by "Fuel cost Denver"
- Tip 14: Keep it simple, use less words. Drop filler words. My last example works for this as well.
- Tip 17: Not everyone is looking for things the way you are. You might need to chnage it up. How to change my oil? Should be: oil change 06 4runner video.
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
- Sara had an amazing article.
Nice work, @Garrett-Iannuzzi! It looks like your formatting for your takeaway bullet points got a little wonky. Next time try adding a space after the hyphen
-. I like your takeaway that sometimes you feel like a garbage developer and you have to move past it. Going to Turing, it is important to keep remembering that your end goal is achievable and that you are learning and making progress along the way!