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Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
  • There are skills and cross-overs from all of my experiences that have brought me here, much like Sara's chess, acting, learning Mandarin. Find those experiences that have cross-overs and capitalize on them. Turing will be hard, but it's worth it.
  • Find and read Letters to a Young Chef.
  • "Fluency before understanding." Trust in the process of learning the rules, the syntax, the language. The bigger picture and creativity will follow.

2. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Coding in Flow (15 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
  • When Googling, start broad. Skim the documentation first, as well as a variety of sources to not get too deep into any one source. Get a general idea of the new things you're learning.
  • Anything older than a year could be outdated. Use the Google Tools to set the search accordingly.
  • Use the "-word/website" option so searches do not contain that word or website -- cool!

3. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
  • This article made me think of Aristotle's quote, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know." -- Google is your friend and should be used all the time to learn something new, go deeper, and cross-reference work.
  • Developer friends have called themselves "professional Googlers", and this article echoes that.

4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)

  • Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
  • Tip 2: Use quotation marks to search for that phrase, verbatim. I frequently have a song stuck in my head but cannot, for the life of me, remember the name and artist. I use this trick all the time to type in the line of lyrics that I'm thinking to pull up the song because it will search for those exact words in that exact order, rather than scattered throughough a website.
  • Tip 3: Use the - in front of a word to exclude websites that contain that word. For example, if I wanted to visit theme parks with the best roller coasters in the country but didn't want to go to any Six Flags parks, I could type "roller costers" -"Six Flags". Hint: they're at Cedar Point.
  • Tip 4: Look for information on a specific website. If I wanted to find chicken recipes but wanted to go to my favorite recipe site, it would look like this: chicken:allrecipes.com
  • Tip 9: Using the word "OR" between two phrases will allow you to Google both of those phrases at one time. This could be especially helpful in coding when you're trying to find "shades of red HTML" OR "red color palette HTML".
  • Tip 13: This tip is all about using professional language. This will be especially true for coding, like "ellipse documentation Javascript" rather than "how do draw a circle in code"
  • Tip 14: Using keywords or the main words in a Google search will cut the extra fluff and get to the answers faster. With the extra words, Google or I will have to sift through the results more to find what I'm actually looking for. An example would be, "dog wash nearby" instead of "my dog is so muddy where is the closest place to clean her?"
  • Tip 17: Much like our practice from Session 2, there are multiple ways to search for the same question. If I'm not getting the results I'm hoping for with a question, try changing the descriptive words to modify the search, especially if some of my language has a different interpretation. For example, "healthy dinners" could also be "vegetarian meals", "simple cooking" or "clean eating".

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

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damwhit commented Jul 2, 2019

@trishalanglois Nice job on this! Keep up the good work! 💪

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