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Introductory Strengths Reflection & Coaching Request

In-Class Reflections Using the Signature Themes Report

Read through the definitions:

What words or phrases stick out to you for each theme?

Context: "You must discipline yourself to ask the questions and allow the blueprints to emerge because no matter what the situation, if you haven’t seen the blueprints, you will have less confidence in your decisions."

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Created November 22, 2017 18:58
Steven Lawson's professional development pre-work

My three favorite behaviors that will make me an unstoppable programmer

  1. Google Everything This one is very important. It sounds kind of obvious at first, but it truly is an essential skill for any job in the tech world. Specifically, learning WHAT do google is a skill that I have gotten better at, but still could get even better at. I think the key is learning to think more like a search engine, in that you become much quicker about thinking of the right phrases to google, instead of asking google a dumb question and expecting the algorithim to find the perfect answer immediately. I really like the "10 tab rule" in the article and will begin implementing it at once!

  2. Understand that code is cheap Indeed, it is just pixels on a screen and the effort that goes into typing them. It's really easy to get stubborn and prideful when you can't quite seem to make any headway in a project. When you have put all this time into working on solving a problem, it can be hard to recognize you have taken

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Last active November 22, 2017 19:08
Steven Lawson's Gear Up Pre-work

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

As a songwriter, empathy is critical. Being sensitive to my own emotions and to the emotions of others is crucial in turning emotions into chords and lyrics, and without empathy, I would be unable to do this at all. Empathy is also what turned me into a vegetarian when I was fourteen, after I felt simply awful about shooting a deer with my grandfather. Because of empathy, I am more sensitive to the emotional state of others around me (even "others" when they are animals) which helps me in my relationships with other people, and has made me a healthier person with better ch'i because I refuse to eat meat.

How does empathy help you build better software? If you have "emotional intelligence" as Daniel Goleman puts it, then you have a better understanding of what the user might be needing in their user experience with a site or a page. In addition, empathy can help one think about needs of the user that might be simply over-looked by a de

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Last active November 24, 2017 22:17
Steven Lawson's Prework for Turing Front End Program

Pre-work Day 1

1.On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code? HTML describes the structure of a web page.

  1. What is the difference between an element and a tag? Tags are the characters between the brackets p /p, whereas the element is the opening and closing tags, as well as the content between them.

  2. Why do we use attributes in HTML elements? Attributes provide additional information about the contents of an element in name/value pairs.

  3. Describe the purpose of the head, title, and body HTML elements.

// run from the command line with:
// javac PalindromeTester.java && java PalindromeTester
public class PalindromeTester {
public boolean isPalindrome(String input) {
// your code here
return false;
}