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Gear Up: Developing Empathetic Programmers**

Articles Read: "Why Empathy is Important for Design", and "Can you Teach People to have Empathy?"

1. What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?

• I come from a teaching background, and I primarily taught in schools in which a decent portion of my students had been through some serious trauma. Empathy allowed me to place myself in the perspective of these students who were dealing with home life issues, and might not consider school to be their number one priority on any given day. By empathizing with them, imagining myself growing up with their circumstance, I was able to connect and build steady, stable relationships. I demonstated to my students that I was always on their side - even when they weren't prioritizing the things I wanted them to.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

• Empathy allows designers to see past their preconceived notions of what their users might want, and instead engage with the r

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Pairin Survey Results

1. What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

• I believe my greatest strength to be my ability to notice my own patterns, and adjust or rewrite those patterns to better fit my goals. I routinely check in with my current habits, and my goals for where I would like them to be. I use an app called "Done" to track those patterns visually, and through the visual tracking I've been able to build habits that I desire, such as meditating consistently, stretching, journaling, and reading. I've gotten a lot better about being consistent with those habits by being more realistic about the goals I set, so instead of trying to meditate for 45 minutes every day, and then feeling bad when I can't keep it up, I set more moderate goals, gain confidence through meeting those goals, and then I continue building on them slowly.

2. How do you work best?

• I wo

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Day 1: Computer Setup, HTML, and Gear Up

Mod 0 Capstone Codepen link

• https://codepen.io/sertmer/pen/orVJxw

Read Chapters 1 & 2 of HTML & CSS

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

• HTML describes the structure of the website. It tells the website to display text in a certain way, wether that means display some text as a heading, or as a paragraph, or subheading.

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

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1. Starting Campfire
  1.1. Get Ready
    1.1.1 Prep Wood
      1.1.1.1 Find Fallen Branches
      1.1.1.2 Chop large logs
      1.1.1.3 Find pine Needles
      1.1.1.4 Move wood to base camp
    1.1.2 Gather Stones
      1.1.2.1 Locate Stones
      1.1.2.2 Move Stones to base camp

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Session 4 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Session 4 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 50 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

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Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.