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Reflect: Empathetic Programing

-- What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
From team building to management to non-profit efforts, empathy has helped me achieve remarkable outcomes for myself and for others. I was raised to be more sensitive to other peoples feelings and thoughts than my own. Becasue of this, I've been labeled as a good "people reader" in many previous jobs and assigned positions. This skill allows me to not only gather information from teammates, target customers, and those instructing me but also to draw out the information needed to leave individuls in a more satisfactory state of existence by the time the project or interaction is complete. Empathy is a HUGE part of achieving productive collaboration, even with those who might not desire to collaborate in a traditional sense.
    
How does empathy help you build better software?
Plain and simple, if you can't understand what it's like to live in the shoes of your end user you can never provide a software experi

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DEVELOPER MINDSET TO SUCCEED REFLECTIONS WORK!

SEE COMMENTS FOR RESPONSES TO PRE-WORK

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# Week 1 Diagnostic
DO NOT GOOGLE ANSWERS! ANSWER FROM YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE!

## Floats and Integers

*   What's the difference between a float and integer?
      - An integer represents a whole number. A float represents a decimal number.
      
*   What's are the similarities and differences between BigNum and FixNum?
      - I've never heard of BigNum. Fixnum is a class that holds a number  or something like that, but I'm not sure!

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Strengths Reflection & Coaching Request

Joel Lindow - Mod 1703 - Back End

Q: What words or phrases stick out to you? How would you define each of your top 5 talents in your own words?

DEVELOPER

I would define the developer role as someone who sees other people and things as "constant works in progress". That all people at all levels have remarkable potential to be EVEN GREATER. That there is no such thing as a "perfect person" or a "failure". A developer is a person who gains great job and growth from helping others find ways to also grow. A hige natural high for a developer is seeing the actual development pay off into real growth!

• DEVELOPER Words or Phrases that stuck out:
  • "You see the potential in others... potential is all you see..."

• "You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow"

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Template for DTR Memo

Project: ENIGMA

Group Member Names: Ben Ross (QXV VDAW) and Uber Lindow (JUMV ABVHDP)

Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?

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Enigma Psuedocode

Paired Project: Joel Lindow / Ben Ross

Program must

1. Encrypt Messages
2. Decrypt Messages
3. Crack Messages (potentially by cycling through all possible date options weighed against Encryption key)

Rules to maintain throughout.

• a "." always equals "."

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Week 2 Diagnostic

This exercise is intended to help you assess your progress with the concepts and techniques we've covered during the week.

For these questions, write a short snippet of code that meets the requirement. In cases where the question mentions a "given" data value, use the variable given to refer to it (instead of re-writing the information).

Use single (`) and triple backticks (```) to container code snippets.

1. Define a class called PizzaOven which has a method cook_pizza which returns the string "mmm 'za".

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Ben,

It was one heck of a week and we came out looking pretty darn good. Mostly due to your fantastic grasp on the Ruby language. Even as someone with just a few months of exposure to the language, you're making strides that I am truly envious of. Throughout the time we spent working on our project, I was constantly impressed with your drive for completion. Although our goal was not necessarily project completion, you took that challenge very seriously and put in long hours to achieve a working version of our program. I did experience many moments where I couldn't follow the pace that you were moving at, which mostly stemmed from nothing but an enormous knowledge gap between you and I. I've seen your desire to see others succeed and your character proves that you're just as focused on others as you are on yourself. As your knowledge of the Ruby language deepens so will your proficiency in the knowledge of "next level" pairing with other individuals from all skill levels. I would highly suggest that you doubl

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Strengths & Storytelling Reflection Guidelines

Joel Lindow - 1703-BE

Build on your professional story by thinking about how you're progressing at Turing. Answer the questions below in your own gist to use your StrengthsFinder themes to add to your story:

Look at your initial StrengthsFinder reflection that you completed in week 1 -- how have your perceptions of the top 5 themes changed?

I wouldn't neccessarily say that they have.

How are you different today than when you first started at Turing? Where are you stronger now than on day 1?

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Module 1 Week 4 Diagnostic

This exercise is intended to help you assess your progress with the concepts and techniques we've covered during the week. For these questions, write a short description or snippet of code that meets the requirement. In cases where the question mentions a "given" data value, use the variable given to refer to it (instead of re-writing the information).

1. Give one difference between Modules and Classes.

• Answer 1: Modules are not instantiated, while classes can be.

2. Defining Modules

First, create a module Doughy which defines a method has_carbs? that always returns true. Then, given the following Pizza class, update Pizza to use your new Doughy module to gain the defined has_carbs? behavior.