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Nick Teets - Feedback III Reflection

What are you doing well as a pair programmer and collaborator?

I think I am able to slow down and explain code when my collaborators are lost, and make sure to check in with their progress when reviewing difficult concepts.

How do you use your strengths as a team member?

I bring people up when they are lost or not feeling confident in their abilities. Bringing positivity to the table and sharing it with others has been one of my strong points since starting the program.

Nick Teets - Agile Practices/PM Deliverable

I feel like it is impreative to focus on agile practices while in school at Turing, but I have found that not having time to focus on MVP makes it hard to really focus on what agile project management is really about.

In this module, during individual projects as well as partner projects, I accomplished solving complex problems by breaking features and functionality into managable pieces, and managed with tools like Waffle.io and Github issues. While this approach makes the development cycle easier to visualize, it is still difficult to estimate how much time certain tasks may take.

Moving into the next module, I was to continue to focus on good DTR policies to ensure I am on the same page with my partners on Github workflow, communication preferences and schedule. Additionally, I would like to be part of a project where I am not seen as the team leader - at times I have felt overbearing on my project partners due to taking lead of a project.

Nick Teets Cold Outreach I Deliverable

Name of Contact

Lydia Shafer

Date of Contact

8-11-2017

Outcome

With Lydia moving away from Denver, it was decided the mentorship did not meet my expectations for a mentorship. While we decided to meet up and talk about Lydia's career in software development, the meeting never took place.

Name of Contact

Nick Teets -Feedback II Reflection

Date of feedback conversation:

9/5/17 - Amy Holy

How did you prepare for the conversation?

I prepared for the conversation by reflecting on our workflow and times where we ran into issues. I was lucky enough to have Amy as a partner during mod 1, so I was able to compare the experiences to better understand our working dynamic.

How did the conversation go for you? What was easy about the conversation? What was more difficult?

It was very easy to have the conversation with Amy - we are good friends and respect each other's work styles. It was very easy to provide positive feedback, but struggled with identifying actionable feedback for Amy. We both agreed that when we are working together, we need to remember to take breaks and see the sun every once in a while.

	Project: Swapi Box

	Group Member Names: Nick and Lola

	Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?

	Lola - Work on pairing skills with different levels of experience.
	Nick - We work efficiently with React and feel comfortable with componenet lifecycle methods.

	Goals and expectations:

	Steps I will take to make my projects more accessible:

	-include label tag for more clickable buttons
	-ensure actionable elements have the ability to be focused on utilizing only the keyboard
	-improve contrast on text elements for maximum readability
	-utilize semantic HTML to reduce the need for additional HTML attributes describing elements
	-ensure that projects are navigable and information is presented with clarity using ChromeVox

	Project: 2DoBox Pivot

	Group Member Names: Nick Teets, Jen Woodson

	Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?

	Nick - Focus on single responsibility principle for javascript functions.
	Jen - Learn to write simple, reusable modular functions.

	Goals and expectations: Solidify SRP and gain experience working with existing codebase and refactoring.

	##### Strengths & Storytelling Reflection

	Build on your professional story by thinking about how you're progressing at Turing. Answer the questions below in your own gist to use your StrengthsFinder themes to add to your story:

	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've seen myself using my abilities as a strategic thinker, and being a positive teammate who is adaptable in any situation. Through working with others, I've had to base my working style in each of these strengths, thus heightening my understanding of these skills within me. In my first paired project, I had to learn to work with someone who was not always positive and and not approaching problems straegically. I had to adapt my work flow to accomodate their working style, and use my positivity to bring them back to a positive state when they were upset that they were str

	##### Challenge 1

	I created square divs, and used floats to position them along the top of the page, along with display: inline-block. Added margin to div 2 to create some space between div 2 and div 3.

	[Challenge 1](https://codepen.io/nicktu12/pen/MoZLNym)

	##### Challenge 2

	I created square divs, and set margin auto on div 2 to center in screen, and float right on div 3 to push to right edge of screen.