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Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

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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):
  • Practicing/mastering each bit, each building block of the code concepts/code we learn will breed fluency.
  • Studying may sometimes be boring, memorization, repetition, etc....but this will make it stick and allow for deeper understanding to be built on it.
  • I will implement these concepts by writing/typing code so that it sticks as muscle memory which will open up my brain to focus on more complex things.

2. How to Google Programming Problems Effectively by Lulu Li (15 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):

3. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
  • Don't reinvent the wheel. Use Google as a tool to research and validate. There are more experienced developers out there. Google is a way we can learn from them.
  • My implementation: Googling a solution prior to asking someone directly. Will take practice as asking someone is easier.

4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)

  • Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
  • Tip 2: Search a whole phrase by putting it in quotations. Ex. Searching "I See What You Mean" to direct a search towards Denver's Big Blue Bear sculpture
  • Tip 3: Use a hyphen as a minus sign to exclude certain results. Ex. big blue bear -house will eliminate images from the show Bear in the Big Blue House
  • Tip 4: Use a colon to tie a search to a specific website. Ex. Learning Fluency:medium.com will pull the article on medium.com rather than from the whole web
  • Tip 9: Use OR between two words/phrases to search both at once Ex. Marbled Pothos OR Golden Pothos
  • Tip 13: Search the way a website would list it, not how you would say it. Ex. Causes of fatigue (instead of why am i so tired)
  • Tip 14: Simplify searchs and results by using important keywords only Ex. Denver events today (instead of what events are happening in Denver today)
  • Tip 17: Try differents words/ways of saying the same thing to find the results you need Ex. how to french braid or french braid tutorial

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

  1. These Google tips are phenomenal. Thank you!
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Good job, @hfaerber! Glad you found the Google tips useful!

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