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I come from a substabtial history in music education. Over my 13 year career I found that the three things I loved the most
were the relationships I got to build with each individual student, the autonomy I had in comparison to my colleages just by 
being a "Specials" teacher, and the opportunity each piece of music we studied offered in terms of practicing, revision and
performance. Over the years NCLB painted many of us into a corner with higher expectations and fewer resources and I was left
with so much resentment in my heart that I knew I needed to be brave and look elsewhere to find a renewed sense of purpose.

I looked at many different career paths, but none of them had the autonomy, community and financial stability I knew I needed
in order to justify leaving music education. Until a friend told me about Turing. It seemed that software development had the
potential to put me in contact with diverse groups of people where I could exercise a similar process of creativity and
perfection in a fairly auto

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Tim Tyrell!
Why you want to connect with this person and what you want to talk about:
Tim was my mentor from Mod 1 round 1 and he was successful in his job hunt. I'd like to sit down with him and map out a game plan on how to approach my own job hunt. 
When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet:
I am going to contact him over the intermission and ask him if he wants to do a slack call, lunch or if he has other suggestions.
What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them:
I will contact him once I've gotten going on my job hunt and tell him a little more about what my experience has been, then see if he's got any ideas on how to make further improvements.
What other steps will you take to start building a stronger network in the tech community?
I've got a few names written down from the mentor list; I am going to hit them up either on slack or linkdin. I want to ask them about what they're doing in the field and see if anyone would be open to me doing a "ride along". 

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Intermediate SQL Workshop

• Run psql
• You may need to run CREATE DATABASE intermediate_sql;
• To exit this shell, you can run CTRL d

Create tables

Let's create some tables in the database.

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How does the engineering culture differ from the overall company culture?
Do senior engineers pair with junior engineers in the ramp-up process? (If they do pair, you can follow up with more questions about who pairs, how often it happens, and how it’s scheduled.)/What kinds of processes are in place to help people work collaboratively?
Will I be working with anyone who is remote, or who works from home on a regular basis?
What checks and balances are in place to make sure people don't make big mistakes or repeat mistakes?/What kind of feedback can I get during my first few months, and who will I be getting it from?
Can you walk me through your development process, from a ticket or task to code on production?
Who might I be working closely with outside of engineering? Is there anyone else you think I should meet with?
What project will I first work on, and what metrics will determine success?
What's the typical day, week, and weekend like in the life of an engineer here?
Did any of your senior engineers start

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Template for DTR Memo
Project:

Group Member Names:
Jori Peterson, Paul Schlattmann, Oscar Bellechaise, Mills Provosty

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?):
- Clutch It! 

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History of Biometric Authentication: 
  -Uses in companies to distinguish emoployees
  -Galtan's details
  -Henry's fingerprint id system
  -Face recognition
  -Speech recognition
  
Most common uses today and how it works:
  -sensor
  -computer

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DTR for 7/20 - 7/21

Martin:
Full CRUD interactions with recordings, including a page for users to be able to view recordings
Get recordings on landmarks- full page of recordings for specific landmark
Be here Saturday 9 - 4, Sunday 10-10

Patrick:
Link to index/show for landmarks
Be here 8- 6 Saturday, 9- 6 Sunday

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Good Morning, 

I am Mills Provosty, a current student nearing graduation at the Turing School of Software and Design. My mentor Tim Tyrrell posted an opening with your company, and after taking a look at the position and reading about Via TRM, I strongly feel there is so much I could offer you. 

I spent 13 years teaching K-8 general music in the public school setting. I've dealt with adults and children from a wide spectrum of languages, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, political and educational backgrounds, each with extremely individual communication and educational needs.  In 2012 I received the Mile High Teacher Award for excellence in the classroom, and in 2014 I received my Master's degree in Music Education with a concentration in Ethnomusicology- basically the anthropology of music. I am familiar with some of the strengths and shortcomings of online education forums, as well as the organizational details that go into enrolling, scheduling and tracking a students progress.

After 13 years I made th

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Chapter 1:
JavaScript uses basically the same values as Ruby: Strings, Booleans, Numbers and Undefined Values. The operators are also almost exactly the same as in Ruby. The biggest difference I niteced was the === and the !===. These are used when you do not want any automatic type conversions to happen- === tests if a value is precisely equal to the value on the opposite end.  
Chapter 2:
Statements, expressions, bindings and functions are tools used to produce values. Statments generally contain expressions, and can have multiple smaller expressions encapsulated within them. You can interrupt a statement, similarly to Ruby, with conditionals like, if, else and switch, or with looping like while, do and for. 
Bindings, or variables, are used to save state. You assing a value to a binding using the = operator. The Let binding can be changed as soon as it's reassigned. The Var is used similarly, but they didn't go into too much detail as apparently using var brings with it some confusing properties. Const sta

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App Name: Agency
Purpose: This app would be designed to help people who have diablities connect with volunteers who can help. (Kind of in the same vein as "Be My Eyes") For those who are hard of hearing, having a voice to text option that can be used in social situations. For those with have limited sight, call a volunteer and use the camera to navigate/give info about something they cannot see. For those with physical limitations, the ability to call a volunteer in the area to help with transportation/mobility. Or, perhaps a craigslist of sorts for either items that help with any of these limitations (for example, children grow out of prosthetics rather quickly, perhaps you're upgrading from one chair to a nicer one, but the old one is still good) or setting up volunteer opportunities for communities to come together and build things that increase mobility. Like a Habitat for Humanity, only with the sole purpose of doing things like installing ramps, or rebuilding someones kitchen to be more accessible. 

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