Aidan McKay JellyBeans1312

Career Development

Maintaining a Stick to it-ivness, Code is cheap, always review your own work first. After getting down and starting something, I usually feel like I can keep going for hours. I'd like to think that I can maintain a "stick to it" attitude throughout everything, especially with learning new things that I can implement. Thinking back to stuff in high school, it was hard for me to completelty get rid of something. I always would think that I'm getting closer to solving the problem or something like that and I coudlnt just throw it away after all of the work that I had done. It'll be interesting and hopefully kinda fun to get out of that habit and just go with the coding flow. I was always told to review everything first in math, english, really everywhere so it shouldnt be much different for coding or anything else in life. Just making sure it's as perfect as I'd like it before I show it off.

Checklists It'd be great especially when you're trying to establish a routine at first. Having a sens

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On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code? to format and display the contents of a webpage
What is the difference between an element and a tag? an html tag is just the opening and closing things you see, an html element has those tags with content in them Why do we use attributes in HTML elements?

What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects? Agile is great for things that you need to learn about while on the project and waterfall is more like everything is thought out before hand with no learning

How did you and your group approach project management in this project (what tools did you use, how did you hold each other accountable, etc.)? We were agile most of the way through, meeting up after school and over the weekend as much as we could but at the end i kind of fell off because of some stuff I had to do at home and I didnt communicate the reason why which prolly coulda been better.

What role did you take on in the project? I don't know what role I took. I created some code, had some ideas, tried to learn things.

What changes would you make to your approach in future team projects?

As a high schooler, I was lucky enough to start in a multimedia class which turned into a programming class. Throughout my 4 years of high school, that class was my favorite to be in and the teacher was amazing. I quickly new that I wanted to be apart of the tech industry in some way or another. After I was shown HTML and CSS, I fell in love and quickly became an important part of our webteam. After the first half of my junior year, I decided I didn't want to go to a college that was going to make me take classes that I didn't care about but I still wanted to pursue the passion I had for programming and design in general. I satrted to research and found some good community colleges for Computer Science and then I found bootcamps like Galvanize and Turing. I took multiple tours of each and decided that the bootcamps were the right path for me. I am looking for a place where I can put the same passion for programming everyday and love what I do.

Why you want to connect with this person and what you want to talk about

I know this doesn't count as warm outreach but I was looking at companies and RedBubble seemed like a great fit and I really wanted to email them about junior dev positions and if they would consider hiring out of a bootcamp. That's all I can really think about in regards to networking and such

When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet

I have their email and have been trying to write it in a way that doesn't sound like I'm hounding them or being rude. Just inquisitive. From there, I don't know about meet ups but if it gets to there, they would probably be remote meet ups considering they aren't based in Denver and I ride a bicycle

What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them

Probably just keeping the door open. Checking in every so often and asking more questions when they come up

What other steps will you take to start building a stronger network in the tech community?

More in per

Goal #1 (what is the goal):

Specific (What do you want to accomplish? Who needs to be included? When do you want to do this? Why is this a goal?):
- I want to work on my networking and attending events that I want to attend
Measurable (How can you measure progress and know if you’ve successfully met your goal?):
- By seeing the growth of my social networking skills
Achievable (Do you have the skills required to achieve the goal? If not, can you obtain them? What is the motivation for this goal? Is the amount of effort required on par with what the goal will achieve?):
- I think I have the skills, just not necessarily the motivation
Relevant (How does this goal connect to your larger career goals?):
It allows me to make connections early and often. That will in turn let me have a wide set of people and opportunities in life

What motivates you?

Feeling of progress I guess

How will you keep yourself going when faced with rejection in the job search?

I'll remember that it isn't about me. I'll keep pushing forward with other applications that I've sent out

How will you hold yourself accountable to your plans? (Ex: Attend Mod 5, meet with cohortmates, attend Kayt's coffee shop hours, etc.)

Have my roommates help keep me on schedule and along with my calendar set up

How do you like to communicate?

Slack, texts, DMs

What is your ideal job?

Working at a consulting company so I'm able to see what suits me so I have a path for my career

	Describe your 3-act arc by answering these three questions in 1-2 paragraphs:
	Who are you? Consider describing:

	How your values and perspective have driven you to come to Turing
	Your Pairin themes
	How you've seen yourself grow during this module at Turing

	Why are you here? Consider describing:

	When have you struggled at Turing? How have you dealt with struggle?

	Project: Movie Tracker

	Group Member Names:

	Aidan McKay
	Antonio Fry
	Colby Allen

	Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):
	* Redux, Async Testing, Less redunant code, PRs and code reviews

	Project: SwapiBox

	Group Member Names: Jon & Aidan

	Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):
	Work with react components to make a dynamic application. Further understanding of react testing
	Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here):
	Good communication is key. Creativity.
	How we can use our strengths to overcome obstacles:
	Communicate well and push through the struggles