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Whitney Burton

They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.
Dinos Christianopoulos

Weaving skills gained from teaching children with disabilities and education as a whole with a passion for learning to code. Deeply inspired and motivated by the Women in Tech movement.

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Day 1: Computer Setup, HTML, and Gear Up

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites (Chapters 1: Structure, 2: Text)

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

HTML code is what describes the structure of websites. It creates the rules for the text and organization of the page.

What is the difference between an element and a tag?

Tags are the opening and closing containers with information about what is within them, while elements are technically the opening tag, closing tag, and the content within them. They are often used interchangably.

Day 1

Gear Up

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

I have valued empathy since I was young, and I believe that it's a large part of why I went into teaching. Often times I naturally am able to put myself into children and families shoes, and that lead me to create very meaningful connections with students/families that were going through big transitions with their child being in special education. Overall, empathy is an important part of who I am and it has helped me be successful in a variety of work environments from teaching to being a barista.

How does empathy help you build better software?

Empathy will help me build better software because it is an integral piece of the entire creation process. Modern programming is a collaborative process with many people involved, therefore it's incredibly important for me to be empathetic towards each teammate in order to best understand and utilize their ideas and suggestions. Empathy will also allow me to foster mea

Turing Professional Development Pre-Work

Developing Mindsets to Succeed

Mindsets to become a successful programmer:

Agency: Taking initiative and ownership over your learning and work
Empathy: Understanding and sharing others' emotions in order to relate to them
Engagement: Active participation in community
Grit: A combination of perseverance and passion
Growth: A belief that your abilities can be developed through dedication, hard work, and resiliency

Project Title

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Agile & Feedback Reflection Guidelines

In interviews, you'll be asked about how you approach working in projects, and being able to describe how you utilize agile processes is a great way to help you stand out as a junior developer candidate. This reflection is meant to help you develop this skill.

With that in mind, please answer the following questions in your own gist about your group project:

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

I've learned the importance of utilzing agile processes so that your products can grow organically and so that they're responsive to the users at hand.
Waterfall should only be used if testing infeasible, too expensive, or dangerous (i.e. space-x).

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.)?

Storytelling Reflection

Describe your 3-act arc by answering these three questions in 1-2 paragraphs:

Who are you: Consider describing:
- My values drove me to come to Turing because the social justice mission aligned with why I became a teacher in my previous career. I wanted to support students from all backgrounds to succeed, and worked in Title 1 schools so that I was able to teach the students who needed the extra support the most. By coming to Turing I knew I'd still be able to align my values with this new career path.
- My Pairin themes are encourager, caregiver, self-confident, and lover of transcendence. I identify strongly with all of these. Being a caregiver, encourager, and self-confident were qualities that led me to a successful teaching career (the whole 2 years of it, anyway). However, being a caregiver was a such a huge role in my life that I was craving to get away from it, and needed to start focusing on taking care of myself more.
Through mod1 at Turing I've seen my

Template for DTR Memo Project:

Group Member Names: Whitney Burton & Kristen Hallstrom

Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project? Kristen: better understanding of array prototype methods. Whitney: become more comfortable with writing tests.

Goals and expectations:

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	Group Member Names: Whitney Burton & Sally Haefling

	Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?
	Confidence with JavaScript through more repetition
	Learning how to work best with a partner, utilizing each others strengths
	More experience with UI

	class Game()
	round
	players
	categories
	questions

	potential methods: startGame() {}, endGame() {}, updateRound() {}