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Day 1

Chapters 1 and 2

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

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a text document which tells the computer what the structure of each page should look like.

2. What is the difference between an element and a tag?

Elements usually refer to the opening and the closing tags along with the content that lies between those tags. "Tag" is strictly regards each individual tag, not what's in between them.

3. Why do we use attributes in HTML elements?

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Session 2 Readings and Responses

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

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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):
• Learning comes in different forms. Adaptation is key, but feeling “less than” because you learn in a different way is useless and untrue.

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Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Documentation and Googling (60 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.

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Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

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Session 4 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you between 1.5 and 2 total hours.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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Session 4 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 50 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

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A Beginner's Guide to Git

Written by a beginner

Uses of git and GitHub

The uses of a VCS (version control system) boil down to the ease of collaboration. Git and Github allows us to share our project with others if we need another set of eyes on it. It also allows us to help work on others' shared projects. In a team of developers, this allows each person to add, delete, and edit any code, making it easy to go back to past versions of that project if need be.

Components to a Git Project:

1. Working Directory - where the user is doing all the work.
2. Staging Area - where the user lists the changes that have been made to the working directory, before taking the snapshot (commit).
3. Repository - where git will permanently store those changes as different versions of the project.

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Checklist/Rubric

Part I: Creating Directories and Files; Initializing Git and Pushing to GitHub

• I named my directories correctly.
• I named my files correctly.
• I structured my files and directories correctly.
• I made one initial commit.
• I pushed my initial commit to GitHub.

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Gear Up

Getting to know your target audience and what drives them and affects them is an important part of developing anything. Beyohd this, though, just coming up with software ideas relies on empathy as much as creativity. Using your own experiences is obviously a good starting point to brainstorm ways to improve certain aspects of technology, but it's so incredibly limiting. Being able to use others' experiences is what opens the windows to endless possibilities for improvement and innovation.

Being able to see where someone else's head is at in important in a collaborative setting. No two people work or think the exact same so the more you can try to relate and open your mind the more supportive that team becomes.

My most recent job I was managing a family of bars in Austin. One of the biggest things I've learned is that sometimes life happens and there are things you can't change. Sometimes people are just having a bad day or got stuck in traffic or had something terrible in their personal lif