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Session 1 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):
• As someone with a Music Performance degree, a lot of this hit close to home in relationto drills and practice for fluency before creativity. Crawl before you walk, walk before you run.

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Beginners Guide to Git

This guide is to show basic commands and processes for utilizing a Local Git Repo. We will go over the following processes:

1. How to initialize git
2. How to check the status of files in the git
3. How to stage files
4. How to commit files

How to initialize Git

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Session 3 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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What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

• My greatest strength is my adaptability. I can be a leader or a follower, I can take direction or give creative ideas. I find new challenges and solving puzzles fun, which has made it is for me to change to whatever environemnt or task I go up against. I also know how to adapt to not being in charge. Some of this I got out of doing improv comedy. You don't always have the best ideas, but someone else might! At the end of the day, what is important is that the group succeeds.

How do you work best?

• I work best in a group of individuals. What I mean is, as a group we decide what is needed, then split off to work on our own parts of the project. If anyone has a problem or question, we all give input, but for the most part work is completed individually. I think this lends well to a career in programming and web development as there are lots of times that you will be on your own just plugging away at what you are coding.

What is your greatest area of impr

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

• Empathy plays a very large role in my life. Whether personal relationships or professional relationships, taking the time to look at things from another person's side gives you insight not only into how they may be feeling, but also why they feel that way. Empathy has helped me see how my own actions can be troublesome for others, even something as simple as not cleaning the dishes in the sink. This has helped me to not only understand others better, but to understand myself and how I can become a better person.

How does empathy help you build better software?

• Empathy helps you build software by identifying problems and proposing solutions. Software should have a purpose, so we have to know what that purpose is. The best way I feel to find this purpose and solve a problem is by talking to the people who will be or are currently using the software. By walking through the application in their shoes, you can see where they may have strugg

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Project: Intention Timer

Group Member Names: Nick and Grayson

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):

• Futher solidify code foundation
• Try something new
• Practice working with others in-person, not just individual coding
• Get to know each other better

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I am a professionally trained classical musician turned developer. My training gives me several strengths including time management, organized, and the ability to be both independent and a team player. I found putting financial pressure on music no longer made it something I could be passionate about, which is what prompted searching for another career.

I came to Turing after spending 5 years in IT support, and 2 years in data management. This gave me an opportunity to dabble in many areas of IT from operations to networking to developemnt. I found that working along side developers was exciting and interesting. There is always a new problem to solve or concept to learn, which keeps things interesting and engaging. I also like the potential to help someone do what they need to do in a more efficient manner. My past experience gave me the knowledge to figure out what I want to do and what that environment might look like.

In my career as a developer, I would ideally like to work for a company that is creati

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Project: Game Time - Family Feud

Group Member Names: Alex, Caleb, and Grayson

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):

• Create a functioning game with all items working
• Have creative/new spin on the Family Feud style game
• Robust testing for our classes and methods
• Use SASS and jQuery as much as possible

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What's Cookin' or What's That Smell?!

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to create a recipe website that would allow users to view recipes, favorites, view the items in their pantry, and add recipes they'd like to cook. Extensions of the project would present the differences between a recipe and pantry, show the price of a recipe, and how much it would cost to get missing ingredients.

Overall (Choose One)

What role do you typically play on a team?

• I typically try to ensure we have a good outline and plan from the beginning. I also really enjoy doing the design and styling of the UI.

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Creating a React App

1. In the terminal run: npx create-react-app NAME-OF-APP
2. Cd into the new directory: cd NAME-OF-APP
3. Run: npm install.
4. You can run npm start to see if the app was set up correctly.