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## Portfolio Template

# Keeliana Marler - M2 Portfolio

## Areas of Emphasis

_What was your learning focus this inning? What technical and communication skills did you want to grow? 
Do you feel like you've achieved those goals?_

My goals this mod were to understand object oriented programming, react principles, testing react, array prototypes and 

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Beginning mod 2 I had already unknowingly been using some of the agile techniques. Our PD session on this topic definitley 
solidified the techniques I was using, and I thought it was one of the most valuable PD sessions we've had so far. I think
that using agile is so much more time and cost effective and is also more effective at giving customers what they want/need.

I saw my role as a partner as being the organizer and driver of the group. A big part of my role was keeping things on a 
reasonable timeline and also keeping myself and my partner focused on the right things. One of my top three strenghtsfinder
strengths was leadership. I didn't believe this at first, but now that I'm pushing myself further I'm definitley seeing that
come out a bit more.

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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?


- I found that my strengths finders themes were fairly accurate. My top strengths were learning, analytical thinking, and leadership. I had not really thought of myself as a leader before, but after thinking about it, that is definitley true as long as I am comfortable with the people around me and the information being taught to me. I definitley have tried to use those leadership skills more since I became aware of them. 


Write a story about your Turing experience so far: When have you struggled? How have you dealt with struggle? When have you succeeded at Turing? How did you accomplish those successes?

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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? */

  I was a little surprised upon reading my strengthsfinder themes. One of my strengths was leadership, which I had never seen in
myself. Since learning this, I have made an effort to be more of a leader in any situation that I'm in. I think that many times
people waste strengths because they don't see it in themselves. I don't want to do this, and instead of sticking to the same
mindset and assuming that I'm not a leader, I've found it interesting and fulfilling to explore that side of myself. 

  Another one of my strengths is analytical thinking. I have used this strength every single day at turing, and am very glad

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uiding Questions to Define The Relationship:
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* **What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?**
  - Perfect JavaScript. Utilize jQuery. Learn activate .class
* **What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?**
  - Diver/Navigator with divide and conqure. Meetup to merge progress.
* **How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?**
  - Slack. Open communication. 
* **How would you describe your work style?**

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function bird() {
var cool bird = "This bird is cool";
console.log(cool bird)
}

1. Add a function name
2. Set parameters
3. Add any statements or expressions inside the curly braces
4. To call the function at a later time, write the function name and the parameters
 

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  Day 1:
  
  
  1. The purpose of HTML code is to structure and customize websites.
  
  2. An element consists of two tags, and everything in between them, and are used to structure pages. Tags are pieces of an element, 
  and are used to signal the beginning and end of an element. 
  
  3. Attributes can be used to give more detail to an element. 
  

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1. http://blog.thefirehoseproject.com/posts/29-behaviors-will-make-unstoppable-programmer/

I think that the three points that resonated the most with me were "Use google very aggressively", "Take responsibility for their mistakes",
and "Learn under pressure. I sometimes will jump into things, even if I'm not sure what I'm doing. Using google and researching for several
minutes could save me lots of time and energy! I also think its really important for me to take responsibility for mistakes, especially when 
working on team projects. Admitting I am wrong will not only save resources, but also serve as a valuable learning opportunity. Learning 
under pressure is also very important to me, especially when working in a tech based career. Our tools and technology is changing constantly, 
so its very important to be able to learn new programs and ideas in high stress or less than perfect instances.

2. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122226184

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  1. Empathy has played a huge role in my own life. I grew up in a family that cared for and even adopted foster children. Even though it 
  was hard sharing everything at times, putting myself in their shoes always made me more grateful and much more caring towards them. I 
  think it is really important to help those in need in any way that I am able to. 
  
  2. To be able to design something that will provide for someone's needs is really hard to do if you don't look at the problem from their 
  prospective. By doing this, its often possible to eliminate many sources of error, identify a suitable solution, and even go above and 
  beyond their expectations. Computer science is not just about the machines and code, but rather what we can acheive with those tools. 
  
  3. Empathy is especially important when working on a team. The reason teams are so useful is that there are people with different 
  prospectives, unique skills, and different personalities all coming together to acheive specific goals. The