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# Gear up week 5.

1) What are three key take aways from this video?
  Makes me think of the quote..Bill Gates once said that he would always "hire a lazy person to do a difficult job" at Microsoft.
  Also to really make a change.... one would need to remove themselves from the conditions contructs of the system
  Technology is very subjective to how it is used and by whom it is used by. 
  Rhat it doesnt take the most powerful person or orgination to make a change to an old problem.
2) Do you agree that "hacking built America"? In this context yes..  hackers = innovators, people free from dogma, the confines of a system that are seeking creative solutions to problems
3) What is the defintion or idea of civic hacking? Any amatuer innovation to an existing system applied to systems of government.
4) Find one article or video that you think should be a part of a future gear up. [Link ro articles](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/how-technology-is-driving-new-environmental-solutions/)

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1) What are the norms for your cohort and which one is most important to you?
  Be okay w/ constructive cristicism, Be yourself, Be true, Step up, Step back, Gratitiude board, Give people the benifit of doubt.  Being true is the most important one thing to me. I think we all have our unique perspectives and have something to bring to the table. 
2) What did you learn from the article? That AI should probably be written and overviewed by someone very ethical and with a strong moral compass  How will this impact you as a developer? It makes me alittle more cognitive of how seemly hardless lines of code can impact peoples lives in big ways.  
3) What is your definition of unconscious bias? Our preconceived notions that we carry into our everyday lives based on our past experiances and perceptions. How does it impact you at Turing? Directly ? I think people assume im in my 20's not my mid 30's which can lead to people thinking i have a lack of life experiance. 

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##Repeating Mod 1 Goals

Brainstorm a way you will contribute to helping your cohort build community and describe steps you will take to build to
see it through. Examples: organize a study group, lead a review session for the class,
assist your SAB reps (if you are not one) in facilitating your cohort retros, organize a non-coding social activity, etc.


Specific (What do you want to accomplish? Who needs to be included? When do you want to do this? Why is this a goal?):
  I think I can achieve this in mulitple ways; being a resource for problem solving and encourgings team building.
  I've made some connections in my short time at Turing with other mods and thier respective cohort members. One has proposed

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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 all of the extensions from phase four.

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# 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:

1. What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects? I learned that agile is oriented around sprints, feedback from the user and refactoring with short cycles and that communication is super important as teams tend to be cross functional it. It is harder to gauge total est of cost and the major reason of failure is a team dymncamic as opposed to techincal inaptatidude. Waterfall tends to pay the people at the top more money with longer product cycles and has a benifit when testing is infesible or dangerous and it is is easier to stagger teams. Each phase tends to take months or year

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Checklist/Rubric

Part I: Creating Directories and Files; Initializing Git and Pushing to GitHub

• I named my directories correctly.
• I named my files correctly.
• I structured my files and directories correctly.
• I made one initial commit.
• I pushed my initial commit to GitHub.

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My Beginners Guide to Git

Git hub and Git  - `code can be made inline and grey by adding back ticks before and after` 

Git commands

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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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Gear Up

EMPATHY What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you? I worked in sales prior to this and play instruments. Ive had to learn to read a room, a persons voice inflection, body language or combinations of these in order to offer solutions to problems.

How does empathy help you build better software? It helps to understand how it will be used on the other end

Why is empathy important for working on a team? Understanding and respecting other team memeber perspectives, strengths and weakness will help reach goals by being more effective

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This is my Mod O technical capstone

On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code? It tells the browser information that sits between the open and closed bracket.
What is the difference between an element and a tag? An element typically has an open and close tag. The element tells the browser information that sits between an open and closing tag which act like containers
Why do we use attributes in HTML elements? They provide more information on the function of an element

Describe the purpose of the head, title, and body HTML elements. The body is the information that is shown on the webpage. The title is the information shown in at the top of the webpage above the URL. The head shows information about the page and isnt shown on the display results