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DTR Notes

Project: Cup of Sugar

Group Member Names: Carleigh Crockett, Carla Geglio, Lain McGrath, Tristan Holtz

Project Expectations:

• All-
  • Want to learn how to work with GraphQL and Apollo Client
• Want this to be a great example to show potential employers

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GH: https://github.com/Tristan-Holtz LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-holtz/ Email: [email protected] Phone: (720)-666-0344

Tristan Holtz Front End Engineer

Dear James, I am writing to you to express my interest in a position as a junior developer on your front end team at Conga. I am a developer looking for a role working with React and utilizing Hooks. Hugh Hartigan is a good friend of mine and I have also spoken with Gary and Elyse about their time at Conga as well. All of them have nothing but good things to say about their jobs and hearing them talk about their pride in the positions they hold made it an easy decision to apply here. I have worked on several projects that utilize React, including Rancid Tomatoes and What’s My Strain?(Both on GitHub). The first mention is where I knew I wanted to work with React, and the second is an app geared towards helping Medical Cannabis Patients find medicine that can appropriately treat their symptoms. During my work on the lat

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Self Reflection

Week 1

What am I good at?

• React
• JavaScript
• CSS
• Project Managment

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##DTR: Define the Relationship

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project? G: To make a portfolio ready app, T: Same, and learning about route

What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches? Both: Prefer to pair and will decide when to divide and conquer

How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others? Both: Open and frequent communication, happy to hear ideas whenever

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Professional Story

After working for roughly 16 years, I have a fairly clear view of my professional goals. I started off as a butcher and learned about what I didn't want to do forever, but stayed in the food industry just with more human interaction as a waiter. After moving away for college I decided to I wanted to be part of the cannabis movement, although it took a while to get in to it. I ultimately ended up working as a consultant for a larger company that needed help running multiple facilities and wanted me to lead the way. As I found myself getting stretched ever thinner I was forced to come up with solutions that could be implemented through more automation. I composed a long list of needs to bring to a programmer with the hopes that I would be able to alleviate some of my work, but I couldn't find anyone that had the balance of industry knowledge and technical skills to execute my requests. After speaking with a close friend that was working as a developer about potentially taking the job, he man

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Group Member Names: Tristan Holtz, Kevin Johnson.

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?):

We would like to finish the project and not skip any iterations along the way. We want to keep our communication constant and stay open with one another on our goals and progress throughout the project. If we’re learning first and foremost, and also if we’re making progress that is up to our standards.

Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here):

We both have a imaginitve-inspirational trait in common so I feel like that’s a great start to establishing a good connection with each other. We’re both on the same page pretty much with our schedules. We would like to stay at turing until around 6pm or so most days, and also try to come in an hour or so early before class to get some additional work time.

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I believe there are ultimately two kinds of peolpe in life, those who will always want to know the truth of any given situation, and those who would prefer not to know the truth if it stands to be detrimental. I have always found myself in pursuit of truth, but a lot of my family and friends it turned out, were not. This led to a lot of arguments with my mother and sister in particular. I would pry at their religous beliefs, calling them "escapes" to hide from whats real, and inevitably would visibly have deeply upset them. It wasn't until my father pointed out that my way doesn't have to be their way, and that it boils down to individual choice, that I realized I was just forcing my own world view on other people. It allowed me to see how I had become the same as the people who had persecuted me and had only tried to vindictively retaliate with a "superior" way of being. This was the beginning of my desire to know why other people think and feel what they do as a means of connecting with them. Until then

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My greatest strength is my desire to seek truth and knowledge, to learn and grow as a person. I have aways had an innate desire to know all I can about everything I find myself passionate about. It is this drive that allows me to incorporate knowledge gained into who I am and truly understand it. I also enjoy learning from other people and folding other techniques I see as valuable into my own practices. I work best by bouncing ideas off of other people, even just talking out loud about what I'm doing. If I can limit my distractions and surround myself with intelligent people I can work at peak performance. Using my company as a sounding board has consistently proved to help round out my ideas and overall thought process. Always excited to hear the thoughts and opinions of the perspectives I place value in. I constantly need to work on being more proactive in my life and making time for everything important. I know I can end up taking on more at once than I can probably handle and end up unnessecarily busy. K

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Session 3 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.

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Session 1 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):
• The stress that she places on practice and diligence being what ultimatley leads to a deeper understanding of your subject matter and allows you to be truely fluent.