CoopTang

# Outreach & Networking Plan
As we've discussed, meeting people, forming relationships, and having conversations are the key pieces to getting your foot in the door at any company. It's important to be proactive in your approach to outreach and networking, so it's necessary to make a plan for what you'll try to further your networking. 

Identify a contact you will reach out to by the end of this module. This could be a mentor, alum, or anyone from your current network. Describe:

1. Who your contact is, why you want to connect with them, and what you want to talk about
- My contact will be a friend of mine, Bao. I want to connect with him because he's working in the tech field already. He's decently well connected with others in the field and I can also ask him of some do's and don'ts that he has encountered.
2. When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet
- I have already gotten in contact with him and had a lunch meeting with him last Wednesday.
3. What your follow-up will look like once you've m

CoopTang

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

Empathy never used to be an important aspect of my life. When I was younger I was often cold and uncaring, but it wasn't until I moved out of my home state that I grew more empathetic. Now, I can see that not everyone had the same upbringing and have very different views of life. Sometimes those people need to be reminding that not everyone is the same and not everything is easy for them, other times I still need my privilege checked. We all need to be able to empathize with each other and to look through the eyes of another. Your beliefs and opinions may not always be right.

How does empathy help you build better software?

If we do not have empathy, we cannot see how others will use our software. We may have a preconcieved notion of how the end user will look or how they will use the product, but this does not mean they are the only user. One may think the user wants a specific feature or may use the feature in a particular way, but unti

CoopTang

Object/Instance Pandora's Star

attributes

pages(array) = ["The dog ran", "far away from here"]
current_page(1)
color("red")
is_open(false)

methods

CoopTang

Class book

attributes

pages(array)
current_page(int)
color(string)
is_open(boolean)

methods

CoopTang

put child to bed
1. Get child
1.1 find child

2. Brush teeth
2.1 take to bathroom
2.1.1 find toothbrush
2.1.1.1 open drawers
2.1.2 find toothpaste
2.1.2.1 open drawers

CoopTang

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.

CoopTang

Beginner's Guide to Git

This is a work in progress and will be added upon as I learn more and run into areas I am not familiar.

Initializing a git repository

1. From your terminal, cd into the directory you wish to track and type the following code:

   git init
   touch README.md
   git add README.md
   git commit -m "initial commit"

CoopTang

Session 4 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 50 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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.

CoopTang

Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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.

CoopTang

Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the 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. Documentation and Googling (60 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.