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What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

I would say my ability to multitask is my greatest strength. Throughout my work history I have developed system when presented with multiple assignments at once. First, I take a broad look at the multiple assignments and then catagorize them according to the amount of work required to complete the assignment. I start by completing the assignments that require a relatively low amount of time, this way I am able to develop a work flow and gain confidence by actually finishing things and it makes the future work load a little less daunting. For the remaining tasks that are more work intensive, I now have the time to focus on completing them correctly instead of rushing through them because I know there are other items to complete.

How do you work best?

I typically do my best work away from where I currently live, at home it is too easy to be distracted. Instead by removing myself and going somewhere such as a libra

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

The idea of perceived perception is key in understanding how different people approach different tasks and problems. Every single person in the world comes from a different upbringing, whether that be geographical, economical, racial, and many more. Each one of these factors impacts how they view their current surroundings. For my particular situation, I have grown up in Colorado and have no intention to leave the mountains any time soon. However, my fiancee grew up in New York City. Needless to say we have very differing viewpoints on many issues, most notably driving (she says I drive like an old lady, but I just think I drive cautiously). Being empathetic to where she is coming from has been vital into our relationship, plus viewing things from an outside perspective allows me to expand what I think is 'normal'.

How does empathy help you build better software?

Building software is a collaborative process, because of this I will be wor

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### Intention Timer ###


### Myself and my partner worked on the Intention Timer project together. Essentially it was developing a website in which
a user would submit information regarding what they wanted to do and the duration of that activity. At first glance, the 
scope of what the instructors wanted us to do seemed impossible given my very limited coding skillset. However, the 
biggest takeaway I got from completing the project was developing the skill to reach out to my peers if I encountered a 
problem, instead of just trying to forge my way forward alone. The code that was produced wasn't just a collaboration from 
soley myself and my partner, but rather a combination of ideas from upper Mod students, fellow Mod1 students, and Turing 
alums. 

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Prior to pursuing a career within the tech industry, my previous work experience contained many parrallels to the necessary skills required in software developement. In high school, I was very mechanically oriented and had a keen interest in building things, which eventually led to me joining a club where we would build and repair the schools computers. When I began college my initial major was Computer Science, but I ended up pursuing a degree in Political Science with aspirations of changing the world one day. Once I had graduated, getting straight in to the work force seemed like a very daunting prospect. In college I had learned a lot of skills directly related to the subject matter, however I was still lacking a lot of professional skills (resume development, how to interview, etc.).

At this point in my life I had a lot of internal dialogue focusing on what I wanted to do with my future. I decided to move to Breckenridge for the winter and get into an industry that I love, snowboarding. I wasn't goo

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Module 2

Mod 2 Week 1: Creating Your Vision, Part I

1. Start Where You Are (Empathize with the user -- you):

• Health: how you answer “how are you”; intersection of physical, mental, and emotional health
  • How would you rate your overall health on a scale of 1-5?
  • 4ish
  • How do you currently make time for activities associated with your health?
  • I believe that physical health is directly linked to mental health, so if I am not doing what I can to stay physically healthy my mental health will suffer. I try to set aside at least an hour a day for physical activities and try to do

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What is a "framework?" And how does it differ from a "library?"

• I like to think of frameworks as the overall blueprint being used to construct a website or application. A framework in itself is basically a collection of libraries that calls the code, whereas a library can be called within the code. The video by Hitesh Choudhary explained it really well where we can think of frameworks more as a school where there is a clearly defined set of rules and processes, whereas a library can be thought of more as your home where the rule structure is a little bit more loosely based and you can invoke these rules at your own will. In previous modules we have used frameworks and libraries in our testing suites, where mocha has been the testing framework being used and chai is the particular testing library.

Why should we consider using a framework over vanilla JS like you have been doing in mods 1 and 2?

• According to our readings, the biggest benefit of using a framework is that it enables us to keep the ui

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React Router Prework

This gist contains a short assignment I'd like everyone to complete before our formal lesson. The prework involves reading some of the React Router documentation, and will allow us to keep the lesson more hands on.

Instructions

1. Fork this gist
2. On your own copy, go through the listed readings and answer associated questions
3. Comment a link to your forked copy on the original gist

Questions / Readings

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

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

Figure out postgreSQL, how to deploy to Heroku, backend testing logic, general understanding of backend/frontend relationship.

• What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?

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Backend Strech MVP Proposals

Here's a list of our thoughts for the what we want to do with our group strech project. Let us know you think, and what is attainable within a week and a half!

We know we want to do something based around music, and our database will hold track info.

• Play a song for less than 10 seconds, have the user guess the song.

• Match an accapella version with a backing track based on beats per minute.

• Media player for 2003 students to showcase their music.

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  // Solution idea #1: Check to see if 'CONTINUE' button is clicked
  
  initContinueButtonChecked() {
    const continueBtn = document.querySelector('#checkout-customer-continue')
    const emailField = document.querySelector('#email')
      this.observeElement(continueBtn, (element) => {
        if (!element) return
       // set up event listener for if continue button was clicked
       continueBtn.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
       // once button is clicked, email input is no longer there