GraySmith00 / GS_StrengthsAndStorytellingReflection.md

Last active June 3, 2018 17:45

Turing ModOne PD

Strengths & Storytelling Reflection

Write 1-2 paragraphs about your StrengthsFinder themes: How have you seen yourself using these strengths at Turing? Has your understanding of these strengths changed since you first reflected on them? If so, how?

My StrengthsFinder themes were futuristic, learner, individualization, focus, and input. Many of these strengths have become very useful to me especially during my time at Turing.

My futuristic strength has helped me see what I have been learning in the big picture and to stay motivated about the more fundamental aspects of our learning because I know they will help me realize some of my visions for software I want to build. I have always had visions and many ideas for how things can work better and more efficiently. Gaining the skills to build things around those visions is very exciting to me!

GraySmith00 / testingCheatSheet.md

Last active May 10, 2018 20:15

Testing

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Receive requirements
Define small piece of functionality
Write test for a function
Write function
Run test
Modify function

Vocab

GraySmith00 / gitCheatSheet.md

Last active May 8, 2018 22:00

GIT

Git is the open source distributed version control system that facilitates GitHub activities on your laptop or desktop.

Install GIT

GitHub provides desktop clients that include a graphical user interface for the most common repository actions and an automatically updating command line edition of Git for advanced scenarios.

GitHub for Windows

htps://windows.github.com

GitHub for Mac

GraySmith00 / terminalCheatSheet.textile

Last active May 2, 2018 15:06 — forked from itsmattsoria/gistfil1.textile

Mac Terminal Cheat Sheet

SHORTCUTS

Key/Command	Description
Tab	Auto-complete files and folder names
Ctrl + A	Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + E	Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + U	Clear the line before the cursor
Ctrl + K	Clear the line after the cursor
Ctrl + W	Delete the word before the cursor
Ctrl + T	Swap the last two characters before the cursor

GraySmith00 / GraySmith_StrengthsReflection.md

Created May 1, 2018 19:30

Directions: Copy this template into your own gist.

Introductory Strengths Reflection & Coaching Request

In-Class Reflections Using the Signature Themes Report

Read through the definitions:

What words or phrases stick out to you for each theme?

Futuristic

"You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what could be and who cherishes those visions."

GraySmith00 / vsCodeEmmetShortcuts.md

Last active April 26, 2018 01:11

VS CODE

Keyboard shortcuts and working with text

Hide and Show Sidebar

CMD + B

Quick Switch Tabs

GraySmith00 / GraySmithGearUpPrework.md

Last active April 17, 2018 18:12

Gray Smith Gear Up Pre-work

Turing Culture: Developing Empathetic Programmers

Directions: Submit your Gear Up Pre-Work reflections on the pre-work google doc.

Our mission is to unlock human potential by training a diverse, inclusive student body to succeed in high-fulfillment technical careers.

Why Empathy?

Interpersonal skills (including empathy) have a direct, significant impact on your professional success.
Empathy is a foundational interpersonal skill. Other skills, such as collaboration, communication, compromise all hinge on your ability to demonstrate empathy.

GraySmith00 / array_iteration_thoughts.md

Created April 6, 2018 14:14 — forked from mrmartineau/array_iteration_thoughts.md

Array iteration methods summarized

While attempting to explain JavaScript's reduce method on arrays, conceptually, I came up with the following - hopefully it's helpful; happy to tweak it if anyone has suggestions.

Intro

JavaScript Arrays have lots of built in methods on their prototype. Some of them mutate - ie, they change the underlying array in-place. Luckily, most of them do not - they instead return an entirely distinct array. Since arrays are conceptually a contiguous list of items, it helps code clarity and maintainability a lot to be able to operate on them in a "functional" way. (I'll also insist on referring to an array as a "list" - although in some languages, List is a native data type, in JS and this post, I'm referring to the concept. Everywhere I use the word "list" you can assume I'm talking about a JS Array) This means, to perform a single operation on the list as a whole ("atomically"), and to return a new list - thus making it much simpler to think about both the old list and the new one, what they contain, and

GraySmith00 / customTerminalZsh.md

Last active April 4, 2018 18:53

Customizing Terminal to use Zsh (including VS Code Terminal)

Enabel vsCode to open files from the command line, install extension 'Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command' https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29963617/how-to-call-vs-code-editor-from-command-line
Open ~/.zshrc in vsCode

code ~/.zshrc

GraySmith00 / GraySmithProfessionalDevelopmentPrework.md

Last active April 17, 2018 18:14

Gray Smith Professional Development Pre-work

Directions:

For the activities listed below, please put your reflections for each of these 3 parts in your PD pre-work gist that you'll submit in the survey here.

Read through 29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer
- Approximate reading time: 20 minutes
- Pick out 3 behaviors that resonate with you in the list and describe why they resonate with you in a reflection (4-6 sentences).

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