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Prework - Day 1

##HTML & CSS Quiz: Chapter 1 & 2

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

• The HTML code of a website provides the structural skeleton for the page.

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

• Most elements have 2 tags, an opening and closing tag. The opening tag can contain various attributes about the element.

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#Career Development Pre-Work

##29 Behaviors That Will Make You An Unstoppable Programmer

Pick out 3 behaviors that resonate with you in the list and describe why they resonate with you in a reflection:

• Maintain an obnoxious amount of stick-to-itiveness

• Making a life-altering decision to change careers requires an "obnoxious" amount of determination. And continuing a career as a developer will require this mindset not just in the beginning, but well into the future.

• Understand that “code is cheap.” / Be capable of writing bad code

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Atom Packages

Core Packages:

autosave

This package is installed with Atom by default but is not enabled by default. Enabling this package will automatically save any open files as soon as the Atom application window looses focus (i.e. using CMD-TAB to switch to your browser)

Community Packages:

atom-beautify

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CSS Layout Challenges

Challenge 1

I gave all of the div's a class of "box" and a class of 1 - 3, then I floated them all to the left. I put div's 2 and 3 inside a div container with the class "right" and floated that class to the right.

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Challenge 2

I left box 1 alone, gave box 2 a margin of auto, and gave box 3 a float right.

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Challenge 3

Box 1 is nested inside Box 2. I gave box 1 position: relative and box 2 position: absolute with a top and left offset of 100px because the containing box is 200px.

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DTR Memo

Project: Foto Finder

Group Member Names:

• Dave Weinstock
• Juan Diego Jimenez

Project Expectations:

• Juan: Improve CSS skills

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Feedback II Reflection

Date of feedback conversation:

• May 10, 2017

How did you prepare for the conversation?

• To prepare for this conversation I thought back on how the Gametime project has gone so far, and tried to come up with a few things that have been going well and that we should continue, and at least 1 thing that we could improve on.

How did the conversation go for you? What was easy about the conversation? What was more difficult?

• The conversation with Nik went well. We both took turns expressing how we felt the project was going and how we were doing as partners. After both sharing, we discovered that we were both very much on the same page and that the project was going smoothly.

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Feedback III Reflection

What are you doing well as a pair programmer and collaborator?

• After analyzing my Johari window responses, the theme that it indicates is that I am doing well at being a caring and helpful pair programmer and collaborator. I am well organized, and do a good job at communicating with my partners.

How do you use your strengths as a team member?

• As a team member I use my strength in Harmony to make sure that my partner is feeling comfortable with how the project is going, and use my analytical strength in troubleshooting and solving challanges as we progress through our project requirments.

How would you like to continue to develop your strengths?

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Reflection: Agile Practices / Project Management

What project management strategies did you use in your projects this module?

• In the Gametime project we simply used the GitHub issue tracker to keep a list of unfinished features. For Weathrly I have been using a dedicated task managment app for MacOS called 'Things' which I have used to keep track of all of the project requirments and sub-requirments, and have been checked them off as the project has been progressing.

What went well?

• Keeping track of all of the pending tasks/unfinished features has been a great way to quickly see what work is left, and to prioritize which feature to work on next.

What would you do differently next time?

• Next time I would like to try using Waffles because of the way it hooks into GitHub's issue tracking feature.

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Cold Outreach I Deliverable:

• Name of contact

  • "The mentor I contacted is Thomas Law"

• Date of contact

  • "05/08/2017"

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