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Turing School Prework - Jonathan Serrano

Task A- Practice Typing:

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Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

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Task C- Create your Gist:

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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
I work in logistics, handling issues that customers have when their product goes missing or does not show up in a reasonable time frame. Empathy has allowed me to put myself in their shoes, by listening to their voice I am able to decipher if they are upset, angry, nervous etc. giving me the most reasonable approach to their need. A lot of times they want to be reassured that their product will be located and delivered. This in turn has also made me empathetic when facing a situation where my product goes missing or I received the wrong order, instead of lashing out at the person helping me I listen and make the situation for them as easy to handle while correcting my wrong order. 

How does empathy help you build better software?
Empathy gives us the ability to understand what the end use of our software will be. How it will be implemented and how It will be used. Will it be a 6-year-old kid playing a flash game of his favorite Saturday cart

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As I read the article I was intrigued at how similar the approach is, from my viewpoint, of Harvey Mudd College and Turing at creating a comfortable, thriving environment. Being in mod1 and experiencing the “Black and Gold” aka “Foxtrot and Echo” effect first hand, I agree with the article at how it helps people with no coding experience be put at ease. It definitely has made my transition into Turing a lot smoother.  Harvey Mudd provides role models, gives access to alumni to shadow, teaches how to network within the tech community. All these examples have a similar parallel in Turing.

Mud College also has their CS curriculum available online and having a MOOC available for High School teachers/college professors who want to take the initiative and implement change at the grassroots level. With today’s younger generation a curious bystander surfing the web may stumble onto this material, examine it and be interested in taking the next step of getting into a CS program. 

What Is fascinating is that Mud Coll

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I'm not too sure if its Silicon Valley that lacks empathy as the article states or we live in a time where empathy takes a back seat to everthing else in todays world. I see how tasteless it was for Facebook to put up a picture of a daughter that passed, to her grieving dad's facebook but I dont agree with blaming the programmer. I personally would have never thought about that specific situation coming up in developing talks. It's hard to account for every single possibility and when one gets missed then articles get written about becoming news. Back empathy riding in the back, all these technological advancements are eaten up by the consumers, who don't seem to care about causes and effect until it's the hot subject of the week. The article lays alot of blame from Amazon to Facebook to Otto, by the way I think automated trucks are so cool. It never really offers any solution to the problem apart from having us, the reader, think about changes we can make. Honestly we are all so caught up in our own worlds t

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Everyone seems to have a second chance, Dan definitely made the most of his at Hubspot. I find it interesting to read how, what, why, the ins and outs of his time at Hubspot. He paints the article in a descriptive manner that reinforces your idea of what a tech company is. Full of glamour, fun and extra perks such as getting massages from therapists. While it all seems pretty on the outside after going through training Dan finds himself looking at what Hubspot really is, a marketing, spamming company. 
What I gathered from it is that certain companies cater to a specific type of employee. While, Hubspot markets itself as a tech company in reality its anything but. To the people on the outside its beautiful and it can be just as beautiful on the inside if you enjoy the frat type of atmosphere. When and if I get through Turing, the lesson from this article is to do my research on prospective employers. Find out if the work environment is something that I will enjoy, dislike, see myself being part of at this age

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Universal Basic Income

Mission Alignment

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As your technical careers progress, most of the work you will do is to automate processes that have been done manually. Our mission is to “unlock human potential.” The software we write enables it’s users to be more productive, and to direct energy toward solving increasingly difficult problems. However, some automation, especially of physical processes, can force some out of the jobs they’ve done for years. This has the potential to do more harm than good for inclusion in our society.

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