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Name of contact

"The mentor (or alum) I contacted is Julian Katz" Date of contact

"A While Ago" Outcome (i.e., did you get a response? If not, what is your follow-up plan? Did you meet? When? What was the result?)

Julian, who is a developer in Denver for Aetna, is a close friend of mine. He has been and will continue to mentor me through the program and most likely afterwards. We meet often for lunch and talk about various developer topics: my projects, the tech industry, his job/work, professional development strategies, and coding in general.

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Strengths & Storytelling Reflection Guidelines

Build on your professional story by thinking about how you're progressing at Turing. Answer the questions below in your own gist to use your StrengthsFinder themes to add to your story:

• Look at your initial StrengthsFinder reflection that you completed in week 1 -- how have your perceptions of the top 5 themes stayed the same? How have they changed?

To be honest, my perception of them has not changed much. This is mostly because I consider myself to be very much all 5 of my StrengthsFinder themes. I would like to point to one, though, that I wrote about in the first week: Achiever. It has become obvious that I am indeed an achiever and have probably gotten more so in the last year or so. One thing still remains the same though, described in this quote, "First, it’s good because you live in pursuit of the perpetual challenge. But in the second place, you never feel as though you’ve reached your goal. It can keep you running uphill at seventy miles an hour f

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1. What surprised you?

   • Probably the most surprising thing to me was the defined and huge difference between the percentage of women who were falling out of computer science jobs after 10 years versus men

2. How similar or different are you experiences to the ones shared?

• I had a very different experience in the architecture firm that I worked in, although this is not the norm in architecture.

3. Why does diversity matter for innovation, your career, and the future of our country?
4. What more do we need to do at Turing to create an inclusive envrionment?

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1. What brought you here to Turing and this new career?

• I was uncertain of what to do. I thought architecture was something I was interested in enought to pursue. Turns out architecture sucks. My friend, Julian had always told me to try out coding. And now, here we are.

2. What lenses or identities do you view the world through most often?

• Possible examples: gender, ethnicity, family, birthplace, culture, parental status, etc.
• All of them. Depends on the situation, place, time, etc... Most of the time, I try not to view the world through any lense though. Start from scratch and accept things as they come. Adapt yourself so that you can empathize and understand where someone is coming from even if you have no idea what that feels like.

3. What are the values that drive you?

• Hard-working but smart work. Acceptance. Vulnerability. Humility. Kindness. Calmness.

4. How do you think you demonstrate those values to people around you?

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1. What did you hear from people who were opposite ends of the spectrum from you? What would it require for you to give someone else what they needed to be at their best?

   • I think the most prevelant thing I heard was the idea that just because an introvert is sitting quietly, that does not mean they are not motivated, do not understand, or don't have an opinion. It simply means that they might be processing a thought. I also heard that sometimes introverts do step out of their boundaries, but they most of the time need to step back into introversion to recharge. I see this a lot in my brother with how he deals with groups of people.
   • Slowing down is definitely required! Taking the time to let the other party process and not moving at an extremely fast pace. No bulldozing!

2. How can you leverae your place on the spectrum of introversion/extroversion to impact your career in the future?

• I think I fall somewhere in between depending on the situations. I can be extroverted when I feel the need

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##Pairing Woopee!

Pairing styles

Succesful pairing - Trust relationship and open communication

Driver-Navigator = Driver is typing/Navigator is talking through the code (guiding the driver)/ need to switch roles frequently to work well and both parties engaged

Ping Pong Pairing = Sitting side by side but looking at own screen / passing tasks back and forth

Distributed Pairing (remote pairing) = working alone but sharing work

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Example!

Challenge 5

I used these elements and specified these styles to make this thing happen. I chose to use white text color because you can't see it if it's black. (duh). (When you write this make your actual description more meaningful...)

Challenge 5

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##Gear Up Week 1 "Coding is to software developers what chopping vegetables is to chefs. You have to be able to do this to do the more important stuff." - Jeff (paraphrased)

Carol Dweck TED "The Power of the growth mindset"

• "Not Yet" instead of failing grade of 'F'
• "Praising wisely"- rewarding "Yet"
• transforming the meaning of effort and difficulty

How have your experiences this week put you into a growth or fixed mindset?

• To be honest, I'm not sure quite yet. Carol Dweck talks about the idea of putting challenging things in front of you to see whether you have one or the other

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#Prework Day 4 Chapter 5

1. In an image element, why is the alt attribute important?

• the alt attribute provides a description for the image for search engine optimization or people that are visually impaired

2. What determines if an image element is inline or block?

• where the image is placed in your code/ if the image is placed inside another block element, it will become an inline element

3. What are the benefits of jpg or png image file formats?

• JPEG - used when you have numerous colors in a picture (normally regular photos) / PNG - used mainly for logos, illustrations, and diagrams that have flat colors