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Turing School Prework- Travis Rollins

Task A- Practice Typing:

• screenshots of scores will be posted in comments

Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

• screenshots of completed sections will be posted in comments

Task C- Create your Gist:

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Turing School Prework- Travis Rollins

Day 1: Computer Setup, HTML, and Gear Up

Questions for Chapters 1 and 2 on Structure and Text

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

   HTML is used in order to give a webpage structure. It houses all of the content (text, images, hyperlinks, and etc.) and helps to split them in separate headings and sections. HTML code is used on words so that they can appear on the page.

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Turing Career Development Pre-work

1. Read through 29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer. Pick out 3 behaviors that resonate with you in the list and describe why they resonate with you in a reflection (4-6 sentences).

   One of the first behaviors that really resonated with me was #6: Understand that code is cheap. Already after working on coding for a month, I have found myself believing that I was waisting time if I scrapped code that wasn't working and tried something different. But after reading this, it really made me realize how much time I could be saving if I did start anew. I can learn from the mistakes that I made, and try something different. By doing that, I can understand what works and what doesn't. I did this today while working on a form in my CodePen. I got stuck for about an hour, and finally decided to start a new one and break it into little pieces. By doing that, I was able to figure out what the problem was after about 15 minutes and executed it even be

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Directions: Copy this template into your own gist.

Strengths Reflection & Coaching Request

Read Through Your Theme Definitions

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

   My first top talent is futuristic and this definitely sticks out to me because I like to dream. I am inspired by what "could be" and what could happen in the future. It is one of the reasons why I work hard in the present so that I can live for a better tomorrow. My second talent is achiever, and this also stood out to me. I get depressed when I feel like I haven't accomplished something that day. I need to feel like I did something important and this described it the best way because it is literally a fire within in me. Even after accomplishing something, that fire only dwindles for a minute. Then I need to accomplish something else in order to feel satisfied. The 3rd talent was being a learner, and I agree that I love to learn. More than that, I feel

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CSS Layout Challenges

Challenge 1

I set all of the divs to border-box and set the margins to 0px so that there was no additional spacing caused by the browser. I put div2 and div3 into another span so that when I floated it over to the right, the order would be div2 and div3 respectively. I also set both divs to inline-block. Originally I had put them into a div, but div2 and div3 were stacked on top of each other instead of side by side. Putting them into a span solved this issue.

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

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Travis Rollins & Dan Alvarez DTR Memo

Project:

• Idea-Box

Group Member Names:

• Dan Alvarez, Travis Rollins

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Strengths & Storytelling Reflection Guidelines

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 stayed the same? How have they changed?

My inspirations of the future and the endless possibilities of what I can do in the future are still keeping me motivated everyday. I also am continuing to achieve something everyday and have noticed my dissatisfaction when I haven't accomplished something shortly after. My learning strength is also building but I have learned that this strength turns off if I get frustrated too long. Learning how to control that frustration and how I can break things down even smaller is something I'm working on in order to continue building that strength. I have found that I am becoming less strategic in the fact that I

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation.

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

• What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
• What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?
• How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
• How would you describe your work style?

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Documentation Guidelines for Cold Outreach I Deliverable:

• Name of contact

  • "The mentor (or alum) I contacted is Bekah Lundy"

• Date of contact

  • "07/16/2017"

• Outcome (i.e., did you get a response? If not, what is your follow-up plan? Did you meet? When? What was the result?

  • "We scheduled to meet up on 07/21 and had sushi while discussing her experience at Turing and what she did to prepare herself after Turing. It was a fantastic experience and I got lots of good feedback on how to stand out from other junior developers and how to start networking. She also went into detail on how her job invterview process went and what she likes about the place she works at."

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Agile Practices Reflection

• What project management strategies did you use in your projects this module?

  • I began using Waffle for project management and developing strategies in both the Game Time and Weatherly projects
  • We created separate branches to add small features
  • I was flexible where and when we worked. For Game Time, we spent much of our time working both at school and home. At home, I made sure to be on Slack often and communicate frequently with my team. For Weatherly, we worked often at school and switched roles frequently so we both had equal opportunities to practice.

• What went well?