Mike Duke mike-duke

About Turing Shadow Day

Schedule

Time	Event
12:30	Welcome and overview of the day
1:00	Pair with Engineer
3:00	Q & A with Engineering Manager
3:30	Q & A with HR

Program Experience

What were the reasons why you repeated?

Health. I was severely sleep deprived from previously undiagnosed sleep apnea and took some time off to get that handled.

When did you know that you might/will repeat?

I had a suspicion at the mid-mod, but it wasn't until i walked into the final assessment and couldn't answer the first couple of prompts that the instructor and I started talking about it.

What did your instructors communicate to you about challenges?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

Checklist

Establish shareable calendar and provide a link/screenshot here
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/week/2019/3/8
List your cut-off date for having a full-time position
June 1, 2019
List monthly, weekly, and daily goals
Monthly Goals: 4 to 6 applications, 1 to 2 coffee meetings, at least half of the days green on GitHub
Weekly Goals: One to two well thought out, well researched applications sent to potential employers

Wheel of Fortune: README, new round, separate methods from Game

SWAPI: testing, routes

profile site: what is the next step?

movie stalker: add sad paths to addMessage and fetchMovies

edit sleep blog post - add more about recovery?

The question has come up as to what i can do going forward to help myself complete projects to a greater degree than i have with some of the projects this module. For the most recent project, i feel like i struggled working individually. It's possible that i've allowed myself to get a little too laid back in my attitude toward projects and evaluations, which is a side-effect of repeating as much as i have. i've tried to be very deliberate this module about improving my organizational and planning skills so that i can start moving away from the trial-and-error approach to building these projects as much as i can. It's possible also that my seen-it-all attitude has allowed me to gloss over some of the stress and burn-out that i've been experiencing, which has come to a head in the last few days. this just feels like making excuses at this point. i don't know that i really know what to say. i feel like i've done a good job this module and since i've been back even if i'm not getting everything 100% done. i'm s

Problem

Studying array prototypes can be difficult without a level of interactivity that helps retention.

Idea

Create an application that allows a user to choose a method they want to work on, see the number of elements in the starting array, choose which arguments it might take, choose whether the method requires a callback function and what arguments that takes, select whether the method returns a value, and then see a visual representation of the output.

Wireframe

link to wireframe

Component Structure

Problem

Studying array prototypes can be difficult without a level of interactivity that helps retention.

Idea

Create an application that allows a user to choose a method they want to work on, see the number of elements in the starting array, choose which arguments it might take, choose whether the method requires a callback function and what arguments that takes, select whether the method returns a value, and then see a visual representation of the output.

Wireframe

Component Structure

What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects?

i don't know that i've ever actually practiced a waterfall approach really, but i've started to see the benefits of implementing practices that are associated with agile development. It was very good for me personally and for us as a group to sit at the end of every day and take a quick look at what we'd accomplished and what we wanted to tackle for the next day. We didn't use "stand-ups" really, but having the retro notes from the day before gave us the opportunity to take a look at where we were the night before and make any shifts that needed to happen based on any changes from that day.

How did you and your group approach project management in this project (what tools did you use, how did you hold each other accountable, etc.)?

As i said, we made very good use of a daily retro log, which was just a google doc that we all had access to where we made notes about what we accomplished that day and where we wanted to pic

i have already reached out to my mentor to talk to him about a job shadow. He's currently working from home, so i'm not sure how this will work out just yet, but we are talking about it. I'm also thinking about reaching out to a friend from my original cohort, Patrick McLaughlin, to talk to him about a job shadow. I've spoken to several of my friends from previous cohorts (1711 and 1801) about their jobs, job-searches, etc, and i plan to attend as many get togethers as i can.

i've also been meaning to attend the React Denver meetup that we have at Turing once a month, so i was planning on going to that also. They are meeting on Tuesday, Oct 16. This meetup is interesting to me because i'm excited to dig into React--which we will start learning in class at the end of this week--and i'm excited to see what people can build using it. It's also convenient that it's right there in the basement, but i was interested before that. However, because it is in Turing, it should be less difficult for me to engage with t