SamanthaLFreeman

Samantha Freeman - Mod 0 Capstone

Day 1

HTML and CSS Chapter 1-2

1. On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code?

   The HTML defines the overall structure of the web page.

SamanthaLFreeman

Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
• *A lot of her prior experiences applied in some way to her learning how to code. She relied on the skills that she learned from things like learning a new language and theater. Then applied them to her coding experience. Something that I will also find crucial is taking my previous experiences and applying them to coding. For example, I pre

SamanthaLFreeman

Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Documentation and Googling (75 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.

SamanthaLFreeman

Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

SamanthaLFreeman

Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

SamanthaLFreeman

Samantha Freeman - Professional Development

1. What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

   I would say one of my greatest strengths is accountability. I frequently take responsibility for things affecting both my work and personal life. Coworkers and friends have frequently mentioned (and so did my Pairin results) that I am reliable. They know that I will be there if they need someone or I will take on responsibilities in new project to ensure that it is completed.

2. How do you work best?

I am comfortable in any scenario, I can either work in a team or indepedently. In addition, since I feel comfortable with groups of people; I'm able to give guidance or be a supportive team player. I react based on what is best for the group. I'm comfortable adjusting to fit to the work that needs to be completed. Sometimes it may take an additional nudge to get myself started, however once I start getting to work I become determined to see it through.

SamanthaLFreeman

Beginners Guide to Git

Git Summary

• VCS = Version Control System
• You can use it to save your work and create save points that you can reference at a later date.
  • Thus you can "go back in time".
• Makes it easier to work collaboratively on a project.
  • Multiple branches or saves can be created, so different individuals can work at the same time and then merge the files together to create a final file.
• Can view who actually made each change.

SamanthaLFreeman

Session 4 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

SamanthaLFreeman

Checklist/Rubric

Part I: Creating Directories and Files; Initializing Git and Pushing to GitHub

• I named my directories correctly.
• I named my files correctly.
• I structured my files and directories correctly.
• I made one initial commit.
• I pushed my initial commit to GitHub.

SamanthaLFreeman

Mod 0 Gear Up

1. What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?

   It definitely plays a huge part of my life. I wouldn't have the personal relationships that I have today if it weren't for empathy. It is extremely crucial that I listen to my friends and family to better understand them as people. It was also necessary with my previous employement, where I had to constantly partner with different teams. These teams often included individuals with different backgrounds than my own. Thus I would have to utilize empathy to work effectively with these individuals as a team. I was able to handle some stressful situations at work, because I tried to be the active listener and respond to the other parties concerns.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

*Empathetic design, mentioned in the readings, is all about listening and understanding your audience. One could simply come up with a new software, but it takes an empathetic individual to come up with software