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Experience has shown me how many people are out there who are interested in helping out the helpless, volunteering in their communities, and otherwise doing the right thing. Yet, in our world, the good in these things has often been made into some kind of political statement, as if only one side has an interest in seeing others succeed.

So I'm interested in helping to connect those who need help with those who are excited to give it: Connecting the homeless, needy, addicted, depressed, hopeless, etc., with those who can teach job skills, life skills, organizational skills, give counsel, provide medical care, homes, home repairs, transportation and more. It's my belief that these issues and the solution to these issues are not political in nature. So my desire is to use technology to find both: those who are needy and those who are excited to help, and connect them, and to do so in a way that doesn't become just another in a long line of movements to be claimed by a political movement for the purposes of

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I feel comfortable receiving feedback.  4 out of 5
I recognize when feedback triggers me. 4
I separate how I'm feeling from the feedback. 3
I view tough feedback as a learning opportunity. 3
I am able to implement pieces of feedback I find helpful. 4

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Tragedy of the Commons

We'll explore the concepts from Parable of the Polygons (PotP) within the context of diversity in tech.

Let's say tech executives (consciously or subconsciously) seek teams in which at least 1/3 of team members are like them (gender, age, race). How will this impact the types of jobs available?

I suppose it would depend on the gender, age, and race of the executives. It would seem that if the race, age, and gender, of tech execs matched that of the general population, then their workforce would match as well. This probably isn't true, although I don't know the actual statistics. Assuming that all tech execs are white men, which seems to be where this question is leading, then I'd assume the available jobs would lean that way as well.

Diversity "quotas" are sometimes dismissed as counter-productive or missing the point of actually valuing diversity. PotP does demonstrate how they may add some value. What are your attitudes toward diversity quotas; does this game

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Strengths & Storytelling Reflection Guidelines

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?

My first strength from StrengthsFinder was Learner. I haven't used that in the way I would have guessed. In the past, I've learned things well on the fly, picking things up quickly and using those skills right away. Much of what I've learned at Turing so far hasn't come easily or quickly--it's been painful and difficult, making me question what my strengths even are. What I've learned to do is how to manage my time so that I can learn as much as possible: Going to bed at the right time, spending my time in the mornings on the train just looking out the w

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# DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation. 

### Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

* What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

* What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation.

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

• What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

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# DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation. 

### Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

* What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

Learning to pair effectively.  Improve JS skills.  Get better at writing functions.  Writing code understandable to any programmer.

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Challenge 1

I added a 3rd div, floated div2 and div3 right, and floated div1 left.

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

I made div1 and div2 block elements, and centered div2 using margin: auto;. Then I floated div3 right.

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Turing Career Development Pre-Work

Developing Mindsets to Succeed

1. 29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer

Here are 3 Behaviors that I'll predict I may have trouble with. So it's good to think about them up front.

6. Understand that "code is cheap."

I've acted irrationally over sunk costs before, thinking that I'm too far down a path to turn around. I like that last thought in this section. Experience gained from writing the wrong code actually helped to produce the right code. It's taking what seems to be a negative and realizing the positive part of it. I like that.

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Turing Prework

Day 1

Chapters 1 and 2 - HTML & CSS

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

HTML defines the structure of web pages.

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