Mod 0 Session 1 Readings

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Session 1 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

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1. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
• The main take-away I get from reading this article is understanding that not one method works universally. You will need to exoplore different methods to complete different tasks.
• The imporance of keeping an open mind to new techniques/methods.
• Hard work before immagination/creativity.

2. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Coding in Flow (15 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
• Importance of using mulitiple sources for research
• Importance of setting google search to relaevnt information (setting search to "within a year")
• Using quotation marks "" or the - sign to omit results
• Using images search to answer programming questions

3. 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):
• Google is an essential part of their software development toolkit.
• “Never memorize something that you can look up.” - Albert Einstein 😂

4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)

• Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
• Tip 2: Using quotation marks captures an entire phrase rather than searching for individual words out of order. EXAMPLE: "sexy panda pajama pants"
• Tip 3: The hyphen excludes words from a search. If I wanted to search for The Snake River, it would be more efficient to search as "the snake river" so you dont get results about river where snakes live.
• Tip 4: Using colon to search within a specific site. EXAMPLE: "sexy panda pants" site:victoriasecret.com
• Tip 9: You can run one search for resuslts from two diffent key words or phrases "best notepad app" OR "most popular notpad app"
• Tip 13: Specific searches yeild specific results EXAMPLE: "butt problems" is an inferior search to "constipation remedies" if you want to learn treatments for your constipation
• Tip 14: Don't use unnecessary words in your search. I you want to find the best new Android phone, don't search for "new android phone that will make my friends jealous" instead search for "best android phone"
• Tip 17: If your first search results don't yeild fruit, try changing the words you're using. If your search "how to make friends with birds" doesn't yeild the results you want, try searching "what birds like to eat"

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would like an instructor to address, list them below:

1. • I really enjoyed the 20 Google Tricks article. There were may usful tips I was unaware of.