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Career Development Prework

(1) The three behaviors that most resonated with me were (14) Never accept freelance work in an unfamiliar technology, (22) Skip a lot of meetings, and (26) Act as a leader, not a boss. The freelance piece resonated because freelance is a piece of coding that I consider to be an advantage and something that I'd like to incorporate in the future, so it was nice to have valuable clarification on the idea. The skipping meetings one because I am coming from an environment where weekly meetings are the norm even when no work is being accomplished. Too many people are afraid to cancel a meeting that serves no purpose. And the leader one because it is the absolute truth. And also the primary reason why I'm more interested in excelling technically so I can support teams in that way, than to excel as a people manager.

(2) Coming from the background of lean six sigma and process improvement, I'm already a firm believer in checklists and have used them many times in career already. I

Prework

Chapters 1 & 2: (1) HTML provides the structure for a website's content, such as headings and sub-headings. (2) HTML elements are made up of an opening and closing tag, as well as the content between the tags, so tags are subsets of elements. (3) Attributes are applied to elements to provide further information about the content of the element. (4) The head element is used to provide information about the page and will often include the title element, which appears at the top of the browser or tab, but outside the web page. Body elements provide all content that will appear on the web page itself. (5) In the Chrome menu, View > Developer > View Source. (6) (i)

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are heading elements to format text as main headings through level 6 sub-headings. (ii) formats the element content as bold.