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One of the first things that comes to mind when I think of the upcoming job search is a subject we covered in a recent
Gear Up session, Grit. It is most likely to be a long, arduous process that I have been warned may be as grueling and
stressful as the Turing experience. What I need to recognize during this time is that I am still a new developer. I have come
so far in the last 7 months but there is so much more room to grow. I remember a phrase I used to hear all the time from an
old basketball coach and it was "Stay Humble, Stay Hungry." I think this applies to everything in life. Things are not
going to be handed to me and I just need to stay consistent in my work ethic to meet my ultimate goal of working as
a professional software developer.
Overall impressions
I can feel your energy through the article. It's pretty amazing. Most of these technical articles are very boring and dry,
yours makes me want to continue to read to see what happened next.
Structure & Formatting
It flowed very well. Not too long, not too short. I like the snippet where we get to see some of the syntax to get a taste
of what you were dealing with.
Grammar & Syntax
I did not find any grammar or syntax errors. I might have missed some but I think you did a great job here.
Name: Nate Anderson
Which Assignments and Why?
I chose the side hustle assignment and the open source assignment as I feel these projects will help keep me fresh with my
coding knowledge. The side hustle assignment will allow me to build new apps from the ground up while the open source
project will help me focus on some programming aspects on a more micro level. I would also like to continue a dialogue
with Josh Cheek as he was very helpful with my initial pull request and I feel like I could learn a ton from him by
continuing the conversation and developing a relationship.
Submitted Assignments
## Contributing to ostruct sanitizer
* Why: This project needs a configuration of Rubocop and am looking for a refresher on how to implement so I thought it would be useful.
* What: I found a pull request https://github.com/powerhome/ostruct-sanitizer/issues/12 that sounds approachable. It asks for a configuration
of rubocop so they are able to maintain some quality control of their code.
* I need: To clone the repo. And add "gem 'ostruct-sanitizer'" to the gemfile. Run rake spec to run the tests.
* When I'm Done: In the original GitHub issue, it sounds like the main developer is the one in search of this help, so I think I can get this
accepted for the next version of the library.
## Contributing to just_match_api
GoSpotCheck
Erin Hallows
Introduced myself and requested to meet for coffee on Tuesday the 20th at noon.
MondoRobot
Rebekah Pinter
Introduced myself and requested to meet for coffee on Tuesday the 20th at 4pm.
SpotX
Allen Dove
  1. Location
  2. Mentorship/Opportunities to grow my knowledge
  3. Culture fit

other considerations: -Company size -Advancement opportunities -Salary

I feel like my top priority needs to be location. For my overall happiness, I need to be in place that fits me as a person.

##Leap My code: here

  • Responder #1 (here) - This responder was able to only use one if/else statement with a full line of and/or to differentiate between the modulo difference. This definitely increases efficiency.

  • Responder #2 (here) - This responder uses a similar structure to my submission but uses a bang on the modulo comparison. I would assume the bang in this case means no remainder, because this will return true in these cases.

  • Responder #3 (here) - This responder omits the if/else statements entirely and goes right to the return statement for a very elegant solution. Not a fan of the underscore first letter variable though.

  • Responder #4 (here) - This responder ha

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NateAnderson1780 / js_exercism_comps.md
Created November 27, 2016 21:13 — forked from tgraham777/js_exercism_comps.md
A comparison of my first three js exercisms (excl. "Hello World") to those of other responders

##Leap My code: here

  • Responder #1 (here) - This responder took largely the same approach as me but used the "if/return true" approach rather than the single line return method. In this case I feel the one-line method is sufficiently clear and therefore would probably be preferred over using if/return.

  • Responder #2 (here) - This user employed an even more broken-out approach than the first responder, creating a three part "if - else if - else" conditional. For the same reason as #1 I feel that the one-line approach would be preferred in this case.

  • Responder #3 (here) - This user decided to build the logic out with a nested conditional, nesting the %100 and %400 checks within the %4 conditional. It appears cleaner at first glance and the ne

When I graduate Turing, I would like to split my days coding and job searching. For a typical 8 hour work day,
that would be split 4x4. So my strategy is as follows:
Daily: 4 hours
Weekly: 20 hours
Monthly: 80 hours
This time will be spent building my personal brand through social media as well as attending meetups. This will include also
building on my contacts and trying to gain as much knowledge about the companies I am interested in as possible.
# Nate Anderson - M3 Portfolio
## Areas of Emphasis
This module, I wanted to solidify my knowledge in Rails, while also becoming more comfortable with ActiveRecord and SQL.
I also wanted to ramp up my job search skills, including building up some of my personal brand with social media.
I really enjoyed working with earlier modules in Module 2 so I wanted to continue that as much as I could.
## Rubric Scores