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Technical Challenge Reflection Qs

Day 1: Millions of Nums

Reflection Questions

1. What worked well in your process? I was able to come up with a solution pretty quickly, and it worked. I was able to explain aloud why it worked.
2. What was difficult/where did you struggle? I struggled to come up with an optimized solution. I knew what was suboptimal about my solution (nested iterations), but couldn't think of a way to complete the task WITHOUT them.
3. What feedback/discussion did you have with your peer? We compared notes- we had used similar iterator methods (reduce and filter) to solve the problem. She had not begun thinking about ways to optimize, so I showed her the research I was doing.

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1. What does CORS stand for? CORS stands for Cross Origin Resource Sharing. It's a security setting that allows resources to be requested by select authorized outside domains (domains with different origins). It generates non-specific errors (when CORS fails).
2. Why is it necessary? It's a very lightweight, easy-to-sidestep security protocol. So I'm not sure why it's necessary, but I know that it's built in to the HTTP request system, and essentially "whitelists" certain origins that are allowed to request data.
3. Why is this important for the Capstone? For the Capstone project, we'll be running our FE code on localhost 3000, and backend/API probably on 3001, so to our browser, these will be different origins. We will have to be sure to add the correct headers to our requests and ACAO and ACAH to our app, to allow requests from 3000 to 3001.

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To my Instructors:

It's strange to be writing a letter to people I don't even really have names for yet! Talking uninterrupted about oneself can feel uncomfortable, but here goes:

My name is Alycia Canavan (pronouns she/her). I have been a pediatric speech-language pathologist for the last 11 years, and I've hopped around from setting to setting, trying in vain to find one that felt "right". Well, working remotely during the pandemic and then returning to my university job afterwards helped me realize that the setting wasn't the problem, it was the work I didn't feel fulfilled by anymore. It's odd to speak positively about the pandemic, but I think one silver lining many in the workforce found was a new appreciation for how short life is, and how little sense it makes to spend so much of our precious little time doing things that don't make us happy. What makes me happy? Working from home was unexpectedly enjoyable for me. I found I was more productive as a worker, a partner, and a mother. I spent l