Zachary Nemeroff ZaneMeroff

MOD 2 Reflections

Q: In a few sentences, explain what the project was and the scope of your work. Imagine explaining your answer to a technical recruiter or a developer who you’d potentially be interviewing with who knows nothing about Turing.

What's Cookin' Answer: The goal was to create a web app that uses multiple data sets including users, recipes, and ingredients. Upon load, the app logs in a random user along with their specific information including name and personal pantry items. There is a search function allowing the user to search for recipes including names, ingredients, and tags. The user may select a specific recipe to add to their "My Menu" or "My Favorites" then select the corresponding tab from the nav bar to view the information. If a user selects the "View Recipe" button, the full recipe info is displayed including instructions, ingredients, and tags associated with that recipe.

Q: What is your approach to working on a team?

Empathy Exercise

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

Answer: Empathy has enabled me to consider an additional element when making decisions. By allowing myself to understand where someone is coming from emotionally, I feel I can better decide my plan of action. There was one particular situation that comes to mind where a friend was upset about something that happened at work. I had to reconsider my initial reaction, to understand the emotional toll different courses of action may leave.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

Answer: For software development, I feel empathy is particularly important when developing UI/UX. When using software to help provide an experience/service, it's important to consider how it makes the user feel. One must put themselves into the hypothetical shoes of the user to understand how the software experience feels as a whole. Does the user feel overwhelmed or confused, or do they feel relief because the software ma

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

Answer: I feel my greatest strength is my positive attitude and enthusiasm for new things. I find I am generally excited to embark on new adventures. I know this because I feel positive emotions when confronted with new challenges. I also feel excitement for new projects.

2. How do you work best?

Answer: I am an easily distracted person. I find I work best when when I am isolated from distractions. I am most efficient in an environment with less or no people to talk to. I have found wearing headphones helps eliminate distractions.

3. What is your greatest area of improvement?

Answer:

Session 3 Practice Tasks

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

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 main take-away I get from reading this article is understanding that not one method works universally. You will need to exoplore different methods to complete different tasks.