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# Turing School Prework

### 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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1. Empathy has played a significant role in my work and interpersonal relationships. In my current career as a sole proprietor in tech service, it's incredibly important to understand the needs of your clients. I must put myself in the clients shoes to be able to adequately fix the problem not just technically, but so that the solution remains usable in whatever their capacity of utilizing tech is (quite a range). In my life, I have friends from all different professions, skills, and temperments. To be able to really connect with people, one must empathize with a myriad of different situations to be the best and most supportive friend one can be.

2. Empathy helps one build better software by creating products FOR the people. When one empathizes with their target market (anywhere from a single person to millions), the product that is produced is more easily utilized and can contain features specifically designed for users that might be overlooked in less-empathetic programming. While marginal, niche improvem

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*** First off, I'd like to say that I'm far less aware of these issues that I probably should be. It wouldn't even be fair to say that I assumed females were so underrepresented in the tech industry, as I had not given it much [read:0] thought before attending Turing. In my previous corporate field, and in business in general, women seemed very well respresented (I believe stats back this up).

*** However, now that it has come to my attention, it seems like a situation that every tech-based institution should be working to ameliorate. I have no bias when it comes to considering females intellectual ability (the smartest person I know is a woman), so to me it would seem wholly backwards to not make every effort to include their gender [as well as any other underrepresented group]. A diverse group of peers has a larger breadth of ideas, viewpoints, and styles that contribute to a greater whole.

*** The ideas and groups that have been generated to bridge that gap, as mentioned in the article, seem fantasti

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### Ryan Spink ###

###Asking for CC number:

print "What is your 16 digit credit card number?  >" 

####Storing the 16 digit CC number:

card_number = gets.chomp

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**** Coming from a business background…this article is interesting. Regardless of background, the article is thought provoking. I agree with the sentiment that the tech industry has a profound impact upon the working class of America. It’s undeniable, for exactly the reason stated in the article: innovation is stripping many jobs (low-skilled, semi-skilled, and skilled) with automation while even more manufacturing jobs are outsourced internationally to unbelievably cheap labor a la capitalism.

**** I’ll be frank, I don’t think the problem (as stated in the article, I’m going to remain neutral on this) is the tech companies. The problem is capitalism. In our current economic, tax, and regulatory system business is THE driving factor and essentially controls our government. With absurdley large financial contributions allowed from the business sector in politics, this fact is even moreso undeniable.

**** When it comes to business influence in politics and empathy for the common man, the buck stops at th

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##Dan’s story seems a little bit like the movie “Logan’s Run”. A bunch of people unwittingly doing their jobs, mixing in a heavy social life, and then disappearing with hardly a word or any causation. Nostalgic sci-fi movies aside, this article seems more like Dan complaining and sensationalizing than anything. The onus is squarely upon the prospective employee to distill what the corporate culture is (among other things) before accepting a position at a new job. I get it, Dan was out of work…possibly desperate…but come on. Let’s say he isn’t stupid, as he likely isn’t. The man knew what he was going into, and decided to write a fluff piece about some “shocking content”.

##With regards to the content of this article, I think that sample size should be factored into an any analysis or reaction. The man said himself that he worked reporting tech for years and years, yet this was an eye opening experience. Are his claims invalid, regardless of my views? No. Is this the norm for all startup companies? I’m guess

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#I think that there’s an equilibrium between struggling to teach yourself and being taught material that works best. Having said that, I’m not really sure I’m qualified to have an opinion on that as I haven’t studied education. From my experience, however, building the discipline to research and figure out a problem for yourself is critical. If you are given fill in the blanks or reverse engineer tasks as the whole of your learning, you never have to really reach out mentally to complete your task. When you struggle, learn, and memorize on your own, I believe one is building new, stronger brain connections that promote real world on the spot ability to break apart and complete complex problems.

#To complement this, I think that help should be available from your instructors and community. With the former style of learning, you will come to a point where you might not progress further without help. The help doesn’t need to complete the problem for you, but should help guide you to the right ideas and the rig

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I’m not sure Nightingale explicitly lays out a step by step plan to educate oneself about inequality, but he does make suggestions on how to move forward. Stay vigilant, don’t make it about you, do research and read articles, don’t question a person’s rightful ability to make a complaint, and reflect on yourself rather than ask why if you’re called out. In 2016, Nightingale’s suggestion doesn’t even even make a ‘blip’ on the radical-o-meter. At least for me, none of this is really anything that I haven’t heard before. I guess that I might not entirely agree with “not asking why” if you get called out by someone. I get it, the onus is on the transgressor to figure out wtf they did wrong…the offended shouldn’t have to spell it out with extra effort…but come on…that extra effort could be a catalyst for the other to change their ways or work toward illumination. It shouldn’t be expected, but if it could help make the world better I don’t think the idea of explanation and dialogue should be completely thrown away

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##Lightning Talk: Cooking With an Immersion Ciruclator

###Topics

• What is an Immersion Circulator (components)

• PID

• Thermocouple

• Heater

• Pump/Turbine

• What is an I.C. used for?

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Ryan Spink - M1 Portfolio

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Areas of Emphasis

My overarching goal for Mod was to attain a solid fundamental knowledge of ruby. I came from a non-coding background and wanted that knowledge to allow me to functionally program by the end of the Mod.

Rubric Scores

• A: End-of-Module Assessment: 3