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Benjamin Firth Gear-Up Reading Questions:

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

• Empathy plays a large role in manya ctions I take throughout the day. Part of my current job is acting as a customer service representative. There are countless situations where I'm interacting with a frustrated customer, and according to a strict interpretation of our company policies I can't help them in a given situation. It takes listening to them, considering how I would feel in the situation, and compparing that to our company goals to make better decisions for both parties. I think this ultimately leads to better relationships with our consumers.

How does empathy help you build better software?

• In the software world, much of what you do has to be flashy and eye catching. However, with things like ADA compliance, many of these "flashy" things can make it very challenging for some people to read and understand using items like screen readers. By empathizing with something like

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** Benjamin Firth Gear-Up Reading Questions:**

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

• Empathy plays a large role in manya ctions I take throughout the day. Part of my current job is acting as a customer service representative. There are countless situations where I'm interacting with a frustrated customer, and according to a strict interpretation of our company policies I can't help them in a given situation. It takes listening to them, considering how I would feel in the situation, and compparing that to our company goals to make better decisions for both parties. I think this ultimately leads to better relationships with our consumers.

How does empathy help you build better software?

• In the software world, much of what you do has to be flashy and eye catching. However, with things like ADA compliance, many of these "flashy" things can make it very challenging for some people to read and understand using items like screen readers. By empathizing with something lik

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Benjamin Firth Professional Development Questions:

What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

• I believe that my greatest strength is my sense of positivity. I’m very good natured, and this manifests in self-confidence and the ability to persevere through hardships. I believe that given direction and time, my boundaries for achievement are virtually limitless. I think that this outlook also can help those around me.

How do you work best?

• I work best when acting as an individual in charge of a smaller part of a larger project in a team. I like individual autonomy, but feel a lack of grounding without a larger scope or vision. Also working with others makes me strive to be better. This comes from a competitive streak, but I think it largely is helpful.

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Mod 0 Capstone

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My Codepen Link: https://codepen.io/bfirth1/pen/gVbrEX

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 (60 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.

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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):
• To get better at code I must become confortable with "hard" memorization techniques like flashcards.