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In a few sentences, explain what the project was and the scope of your work. Imagine explaining your answer to a technical recruiter or a developer who you’d potentially be interviewing with who knows nothing about Turing.

Overall (Choose One)

• Creating an app that allows users to set a personal written goal and set timed goals for themselves. The app will time them and their activity then will log their progress and keep track of completed tasks.

• Creating an app that tests the users memory by having them flip cards to find a matching wu tang member and then racing against their best times.

• Creating an app that allows the user to create to do lists and prioritize them according to their own needs.

What role do you typically play on a team? (If you answer, provide an example from this project)

• I am someone who tries to break complicated problems down to the most simple of terms so that everyone can work efficiently and on the same (or similar) page.

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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 each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

• Corbin: Learing fundational JS concepts. Solidifying their application.

• What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?

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Reflect on Empathy

• From reading/watching the articles it seems that empathy is an important factor in the field of software development for a variety of reasons. First, empathy is an important element of product or service design. One of the articles described the process of creating products to help people in the business place however, upon conducting onsite research (empathetic research) the team found that their products were frequently being used by elderly and disabled people in order to read pill bottles or small text on packages. The team used this information to iterate upon their ideas to create a portable version of this device that people could use while out of the home and to make it so the product would easily hold cylindrical objects in place for people with disabilities that were having trouble using the device as intended. Another one of the articles discussed the nature of empathy and how it really only requires a very small amount of empathy and care in order to help someone who is in

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Pairin Results

Step 3 questions

What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

• My personal greatest strength is being logical and problem solving. I have been independent (fiscally and in residence) from a young age and I have developed a set of work ethics and principles to assist in my day to day life. Such principles include never lying to yourself and work hard and honestly for others in order to maintain employment and good graces when possible.

How do you work best?

• I work best in an environment that allows for me to learn and then adapt. I also work best in an environment that allows me to learn through trial and possible errors. My ideal work environment is one in which I can understand the logic and resoning of those that I am listening to. If I am able to understand the reasoning behind what I am doing I am significantly more motivated to do exceptional work. In the

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1. Regular
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• Dark Chocolate
• White Chocolate

3. Bannana
4. Smile face cakes

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Session 1 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 25 minutes.

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1. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
• Programmers regularly google problems they are having in order to see how other people have resolved similar issues.