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Session 4 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Beginners Guide to Git

And how not to loose your mind

So, you have decided to learn about Git? Have a bootcamp or a job that requires it or just trying to be cool?

You came to the right place! Git is at the end not that tough, really, at least the beginning part.

Here I'll explain to you a bit about what I know about Git 🔥

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Day 1

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

   • It creates and gives structure to a website to make it easier for the user to understand and navigate the website.
   • The h1 tag, for example is the header of the page. The h1 tag should be inside the body tag, which lieas inside the html tag. The body tag is where everything visible on the html code is. Inside the body tag you can add the paragraph, image, link, article tags, which help put the page together before making it visually pretty with CSS.

2. What is the difference between an element and a tag?

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Pre-Work

1. What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

   • From what I understood from the PAIRIN test it is Imaginative-Inspirational. I think that really holds true to who I am. I know that I am very creative and my creative thinking inspires me to live my life a certain way, but always a way that I am happy with. I am proud of being a creative, friendly individual.

2. How do you work best?

   • It really depends on who I am surrounded with. I usually get along with everybody thus then I can work great in a team, and I love working with teams too. But if I feel unsafe or uneasy I prefer to work alone. I am not afraid to work alone, I enjoy my company.

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Gear-Up

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

   • I honestly have been a lot less empathetic since my mid teen years, but I still tend to be very understanding about being in another persons shoes. Whenever I go to a restaurant and hotels/hostels, I think of how I can help the person who will be attending me or cleaning after me in someway to make it easier on them. I don't know how it has helped me but I am sure they appreciate it. I beleive that just simply thinking, " what would I like or do different if I was this person?" helps.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

• Empathy would help me be a better programmer by helping me stand and understand the lives of those using the software. If there is something that the user struggles with it would be great to help the user by building software that is useful for them, that would make their life easier. It's about thinking of the way you can make a difference with your knowledge. Technology has come

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Rubric

Functional Expectations

• Novice: Application meets all of the expectations of phase one.
• Advanced Beginner: Application meets all of the expectations of phase two.
• Proficient: Application meets all of the expectations of phase three.
• Exceptional: Application adds three or more of the extensions from phase four.

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Looking Front-End Developer

Hello there! Are you a creative, adventurous, hard-working Front-End Dev?

We are a fun diverse company in southern California that concentrates in not only creating great website, but making sure our developers have a secure, financially stable, full of travel life. We pride ourselves in our diversity and on how we help our employees grow in their career fields by investing in them by paying for their training and education in a field related to tech along should they want to expand their expertise.

What we look for in our employees are:

• Enthusiasam for learning and growth.
• Risk takers willing to try new ideas.

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Agile & Feedback Reflection

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

• Waterfall can be time consuming and expensive when using it for projects. Agile is better in the way that you can find out early enough through the process when to stop and rethink where the project stands and how to better it.

2. 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.)?

• We worked together and apart and used the project folder in our github to check off what needed to be done first and chose together who would take over what part of the project;

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I am Amanda Sierra Lopez. I am an adventurous, determined, open-minded woman. I was born in Venezuela, when I was 7 my mom and I moved to California for a better life. When I was 20, I moved to Europe and lived in London, UK, Berlin, Germany, and Deventer, Netherlands. During my time in Europe I travelled often around Europe, but also around Asia and South America. During my time in Europe I found my interest in coding and self taught myself html and css.

Coming to Turing was something unexpected. Before Turing I was starting off a bachelors degree in Software Engineering in the Netherlands but quickly realised that I was not happy with the schools structured and felt that I had not learned nothing at all. At the time i had been speaking to a friend that was a Turing alumni, Amanda Tjan. Talking to her convinced me to apply to Turing.

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Why you want to connect with this person and what you want to talk about
I plan to connect with my cousins wife, Kathy, who also recently went through a coding bootcamp in Spain and is now working as a front-end dev.

When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet
I have contacted her already

What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them
I hope to visit soon, both her and I are inspiring the rest of the family to apply to coding bootcamps and get into tech.

What other steps will you take to start building a stronger network in the tech community?