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Mod 0:

Day 1 capstone:

1. On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code?

   • Structure and presentation of the webpage.

2. What is the difference between an element and a tag?

   • Elements tell the browser something about the information that sits between the opening and closing tags. Tags tell you something about the information that is between their opening and closing tags.

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Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Documentation and Googling (75 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.

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Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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.

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Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

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Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Markdown Practice

Take a look at the Mod 0 Tech Setup instructions. Next, click the Raw button and compare the raw markdown to how the gist displays.

Look for the following elements, and under each bullet point, paste an example of the markdown that creates each.

• Headings of various sizes
• Links
• Bold text
• Auto-numbered lists

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Intro to Markdown:

Smaller headings use more #'s (1-3)...

(remember to use .md on the file extention)

To make a numbered list you must use a "1" before each item on the list. MD will know what to do. (remember to inculde a space between 1. and the item)

Example: A list of my favorite drinks from 1-5...

1. Wine

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Session 4 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Professional Development

Please respond to the following questions in a reflection (4-6 sentences):

What is your greatest strength and how do you know? How do you work best? What is your greatest area of improvement? How do you hope to maximize your strengths for your new career in software development? How might knowing about your strengths and working preferences benefit you as a software developer?

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Gear Up

1. What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?

   • Empathy has played a pretty large roll in my life. Growing up I didn't have much, it wasn't till later that we became a little more lucky. I feel this gave me a pretty good sense of understanding, never taking anything for granted. My parents also raised me to be accepting of all people, that played a big roll in my life because it helped me develop good social skills, I could always talk to anyone.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

   • It helps you because you need to understand that you are not always designing something for yourself. What you create may be used by millions of people, all of which are different. You need to take into account what they need, and learn how to make them feel included as well. In turn this will make your software better.

3. Why is empathy important for working on a te