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CSS Grid Challenges

Work to recreate each comp using CSS Grid. There are multiple pathways to a solution for each comp!

Level 1:

Level 2:

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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 each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

Practice JS, get as far in the project possible, BUT make sure each iteration is as good as we can make it.

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Agile & Feedback Reflection Guidelines

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

I've worked at an agile-like shop before - I definitely see the benefits of agile, especially in software. Agile allows you to test as you go and pivot when necessary, though waterfall does a better job of freeing up your resources once a project has moved down the line. For software, and it's position in an ever-changing market, agile is generally preferred.

2. 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.)?

Our project board ended up being a bit waterfall-like, but we stopped, tested, and refactored at crucial points. This allowed us to stay on schedule -if we had not refactored in Iteration 0 when we were told we needed to, we would have had to refactor after Iteration 1, and I think the sheer amount of code and how it was tied together would have made it impossible - but it would

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DTR Memo Project: Refactor Tractor

Group Member Names: Allie, Colin, Matt

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?): Knowing all of the key concepts, understanding each other's code enough to talk about it and rewrite it.

Schedule Expectations (When are we available to work together and individually? What constraints do we have?):

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I’ve enjoyed math and logic from a young age, but it’s not something I was ever encouraged to do. Based on my grades, (if that’s a good metric), I was actually probably better at math than I was art art, but art was what I was always complimented for and encouraged to do, so my impressionable young self pursued the arts all through high school, and then into college.

After college, I got work in illustration and theater, but never found my jobs especially satisfying, which was pretty baffling to me. I still enjoyed the arts as a hobby, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to do all day.

I inadvertently discovered what I needed when I went into tech as a day job when I was 26 and needed health insurance. To my surprise, I was in a job where I wasn’t constantly looking at the clock, wondering when I was going to leave. I was engaged, and interested, and that was only scratching the surface of the hard problems. Still, I couldn’t put words to what was making me feel good - I chalked it up to being at a g

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DTR Memo Project: Refactor Tractor

Group Member Names: Allie, Colin, Matt

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?): Knowing all of the key concepts, understanding each other's code enough to talk about it and rewrite it.

Schedule Expectations (When are we available to work together and individually? What constraints do we have?):

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-I generally prefer to reach out to people who I've had a working relationship with but am not super close with, since mixing my personal life and professional life makes me a little uncomfortable. I have a lot of close friends in tech, but I'd rather reach out to old coworkers or friends of friends.

One person I could potentiall reach out to is someone who used to be a Turing student who worked at Kapost with me. One of my specific questions is about being a woman in tech, and I know she was one of the women who left in kind of a mass-lady-exodus from my company's engineering team. I want to know what about that company was a bad fit for women, and how to evaluate whether or not a company is a good fit for women.

-I plan to reach out after the end of Mod 2

-I will meet up with them however works best for them, either by slack call or buying them coffee

-I will probably reach out on Turing slack, something like,

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DTR Memo

Project: SWAPI Trivia

Group Member Names: Allie, Raisa

• Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):

Allie - Meet all learning goals, get more comfortable and quick with React, finish all iterations

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Adapted from Kirk Veitch's gist https://gist.github.com/KVeitch/01b0685bf8e1574b19f2c17be0730b9b

Creating a React App

1. In the terminal run: npx create-react-app NAME-OF-APP

• If you have trouble, you may want to run npm install -g create-react-app first. https://www.codecademy.com/articles/how-to-create-a-react-app

2. Cd into the new directory: cd NAME-OF-APP

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DTR Memo Project: Rotten Tomatillos

Group Member Names: Allison, Allie, Kate

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):

Allie: All required iterations, meet learning goals (understand redux) Kate: Better at testing, work on communicating with the PM on what's important and what's not Allison: Continue growth in testing