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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):
• The first main take-away that I have after reading this piece is that not everyone learns the same way and that should be considered a good thing. If everyone learned the same way, had the same sort of mindset, and consequently, programmed the same way, the tech industry and everyone who interacts with it would be worse off. Diversity is ex

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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 (75 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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Day 1

1. On a website, the purpose of HTML code is to structure the website by utilizing tags and elements.

2. An element directs the browser how to structure the page by utilizing an opening <> and closing </> tag with content in between the tags. Tags generally use an opening tag <> and a closing tag </>, and the characters within the angle brackets indicate the tag's purpose. For example <p> is an opening paragraph tag.

3. Attributes provide additional information to HTML tags. An attribute appears in the opening tag of an element and is comprised of a name and a value, which are separated by an =. An example of an HTML attribute is <a href="www.google.com">Link to Google</a>. "href" is the name and "www.google.com" is the value.

4. In HTML, the head element contains information about the page and it isn't displayed to the user. You will usually find the head element before the body element on a page. The title element is used in HTML to display content in the top of the page or within a