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Session 1 Readings and Responses

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

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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):
  • I really appreciate the approach that writing code is both improversation and strategy. My experience with code has been that of both being creative in a new way, as well as concise so the computr knows what you're asking of it.
  • There's a few mentions in the beginning of 'jumping in head first','being thrown in the deep end and forced to swim to shore.',etc. This seems a fair premonition of what to expect in the next seven months. That being said I am very excited for hands on learning, really diving into the work, and seeing what comes out the other side.
  • Repetition, Memorization, and Practice. Great guidelines to start. I will remember this for future studies.
  • All that being said she finishes her paper with a nice point, that one must have a solid foundation of tools and 'fluency' before you can move into being creative.That masterpieces come after hard work, practice, and dedication.

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):
  • It's good to know that Blog posts can be a reliable source of information. It makes sense that developers would publish their solutions this way, but I grew up in a school that ostracized Wikipedia because of it's open source editing option.
  • Quotation marks! What a problem solver. No longer sifting through pages of articles with flagged words, I can now search for "phrases of words". Great tool to know.
  • The idea of a minus sign in the search box seems hit or miss. I can imagine several situations where a problem is resolved, specifically explaining how the 'subtracted' word is not relevant, and this google technique would delete the entire page from the search, even though it's relevant. I hope that made sense. I'm going to practice searching with the minus function to see what I get as results.

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):
  • Clearly Google needs a prominent and permanent home in my tech toolbelt. Done.
  • This article was short and sweet; learn to use google in every step of development, wether thats for research or validation of practice.

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: Quotes eliminate the search for specific words, and search for specific links of words or phrases, sifting through search results to be more specific. "black and white koi fish" vs black and white koi fish pull up different search results.
  • Tip 3: Hyphen works like a math equation in the search, it removes all webpage results that would include the subtracted word. Surfoard -Beyonce would delete all mentions of that song.
  • Tip 4: A colon narrows down the search to a selected website host. Ruby site:Lynda.com would pull up only examples of Ruby found on the website Lynda.com
  • Tip 9: This search tool allows you to search for multiple questions at once. It's good to note that you an use a few search tools; AND, OR, or NOT all allow you to pair the two searched phrases together specifically. "plane" NOT aircraft. "plane" OR aircraft.
  • Tip 13: Be specific and mindful of what you search for. Try to use the phrasing you would expect to read on the desired web page. How to clean a fish tank NOT my fish tank is dirty and I need help.
  • Tip 14: Be concise in your search. Don't search for complete sentences but rather keywords and phrases. Don't search: How to fix my problem on textEditor CSS, but rather: CSS problem textEditor
  • Tip 17: This one says to use descriptive words, but I don't quite agree. I think a better way to phrase it is to say "how many ways can you ask the same question. Try a different way" As in if you at first don't succeed, try, try, try again.

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

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

  1. It may be redundant, but using advanced search can also help to narrow down a specific phrase or exclude certai phrases from a search.
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damwhit commented Aug 16, 2019

@vladd-png - Very true, but that tends to take more time then tweaking the search phrase itself. I'd air on the side of efficiency when possible.

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