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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
- Empathy has been a strong trait for me since being very young. It allows me to learn from others and the world much more effectively and kindly. Also when your mind is used to trying to see what it's like to be in someone else's shoes it makes it easier to approach non-human problems. This is because you get used to taking different perspectives. So training your mind to constantly take the perspectives of others trains your brain to do the same when tackling non-human problems like coding.
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How does empathy help you build better software?
- When we build software we are building it for others to use. To make our software appealing and functional we need to look at it from the users point of view. We also have to imagine all the different people who may use our software. People around the world have different learning styles, cultures, and different levels of computer knowledge. All this needs to