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

Empathy should play a role in everyone's life. Specifically for me, I see it's value in friendships, relationships, with family, with coworkers, in how I view politics - essentially any part of my life that deals with humans, which is nearly every part. More specifically, it has helped me be a better teammate at work by allowing me to connect with my teammates on a personal level, which helps us work together better on work projects. Admittedly, my personality tends more toward cognitive empathy than emotional empathy, but I am always working toward balancing the two to manifest more compassionate empathy.

How does empathy help you build better software?

You have to have empathy for your users to build good software. You have to be able to put yourself in their shoes with every UX decision to ensure your product is going to

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29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer - Reflections

Pick out 3 behaviors that resonate with you in the list and describe why they resonate with you in a reflection (4-6 sentences).

"Acknowledge that most major decisions don’t matter that much" is a behavior I need to keep in mind because I have strong opinions and can tend to get caught up in those decisions. I want to learn to value the big picture and not get caught up in the debates about the smaller details that make up the big picture (e.g. the spaces vs. tab debate).

I also want to learn to value the idea that "code is cheap." It can be frustrating to come to the realization that you just spent hours working on a solution that may need to be scrapped in lieu of a better solution. However, if in the long-run you produce a better product and ultimately less time, that initial scrapped work was part of the path that led to the end-results you wanted.

Finally, the 2 behaviors related to learning vim definitely reso

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Day 1 Prework

Questions

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

   HTML describes the structure of pages.

2. What is the difference between an element and a tag?

   Elements are made up of tags. Elements tell the browser about the information between the tags. Tags are elements of the element.