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Day 1 - Computer Setup & Gear up

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

Describes the structure of a webpage.

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

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Professional Development:

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Reflections

Google aggressively - No matter what you're setting out to do, you're going to run into questions and roadblocks. Understand how quickly coding languages can fall in and out of favor, it's important to constantly be learning new languages an evolving your style. Upon graduating from Turing, I will be on my own for learning new languages and Google is a developers best friend in continuing their learning. Also, my friend told me that pretty early on, Turing School Instructors stop answering questions and tell you to "Google it"... gotta learn quickly and on your own in this world.

Say "I don't know" - Having worked in sales & management for the past 4 years, the most difficult part of that job is helping people who don't seem to think they have anything to learn and therefore, never ask for help or claim to not know about a particular subject. The best way to learn is to get off your high horse and acknowledge that

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What role has empathy played in your life and how can it help you?

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Empathy didn't just manifest itself during sales, it’s taken a lifetime to develop and understand but I’ll focus on the lessons learned during my time in sales because it’s fresh. Whenever you’re approaching a sale, you have two problems that you need to understand before starting out. The first is the problem what your customer is dealing with and the second, is the fact that you might lose your job if you don’t hit quota. Most people (regardless of profession) are extremely self-centered and struggle to see anybody else’s point of view (sound a bit like a cynic) and it leads to heated arguments and uncomfortable exchanges (think of your most recent Thanksgiving!). In order for true collaboration and growth, I’ve needed to check my ego at the door, see various sides of an argument and truly listen to what the other person is saying and feeling in order to accomplish anything. Moving forward, I am always going to be w

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Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
• KK: I really want to understand single purpose functions and become more solid on how exactly to pass argumentsthrough to other functions to get around the issues with function scoped JS. Another goal is to have a much for solid understanding of “this” and how navigate to the right element.
• LM: To increase my ability to write JS and refactoring codebases.
How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
• KK: Honesty is key. Gotta set the foundation for what expectations are early and adhere to them. I’m always on Slack so available whenever.
• LM: Direct and upfront, I'm available on slack or via text, don't email me because I'm a 16k inbox person.
How would you describe your work style? KK: Committed and passionate. Things I’m working on are breaking down each problem into a sin

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Write 1-2 paragraphs about your StrengthsFinder themes: How have you seen yourself using these strengths at Turing? Has your understanding of these strengths changed since you first reflected on them? If so, how?

The main strengths I'm going to focus on are problem solving and adaptability. While I’ve never considered myself a problem solver in the traditional sense, I’ve started seeing patterns of problem solving in my previous career and it opened my eyes to the fact that I’ve been problem solving my entire life. The area that I need to focus on is boiling problems down into their most fundamental properties and then starting to solve from there. The biggest thing I’ve learned is I need to spend a lot more time understanding the problem that I’m looking to solve. As far as how my understanding of this has changed, it’d have to be that problem solving isn’t just getting the right answer. It’s about fully understanding every step in the process to get from problem to solution and be