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Turing School Prework - Andy Wooten

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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Turing Pre-work: Task C

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  I am pleased with what I read in the article.  I think the approach taken by the
Harvey Mudd College is well thought-out; it takes a multi-faceted approach to
illicit a cultural change like this, and it seems a lot of programs and 
workplaces try to take the "magic bullet" approach and completely miss the mark: "Oh! I bet if we do this
thing...".  I'm glad to see a program take such real steps towards driving a change which can
be adopted by other institutions.
  I'm not well-versed on the statistics regarding women in STEM fields; however, a cursory google
 search of government statistics shows a roughly 50% discrepancy in the proportion of women in STEM
 careers versus women in the US workforce.  Given the proven nature of this discrepancy, as this
 is not the first time this trend has been noticed, I'm surprised that these methods haven't been

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account_number = []
 while account_number.length < 15
  puts "Enter an account number to validate."
  account_number = gets.chomp
    end

single_digits = []
  account_number.each_char {|number| single_digits << number.to_i} 
    #iterates through account_number and converts digits to integers and adds them to single_digits

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SILICON VALLEY HAS AN EMPATHY VACUUM

I think this article does well to highlight the moral dilemmas that exist within the technology industry.
In recent years, it seems that there is a less focus on the consequences of an action than the dollar
amount benefit.  The most-obvious example is fake news manufacturing during this election year.

The 'exposure', laughable term, of fake news manufacturing has severely emphasized
a lack of basic moral fiber.  I recently read another article interviewing a man who ran one of these sites.
He didn't speak about the implications of misleading, deceiving, people or influencing an election with
false reports.  He spoke about the dollar amount that is generated from his site month-to-month: $20k-30k. He

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12/7/16
Response to “My Year In Startup Hell”


	I think this article does well to highlight that nothing there is no ‘Utopia’ yet.  There’s always a downside.  Try as any person might to make anything out to be the most zero-negatives scenario or thing-a-whats-it, there is, without fail, something that is glossed over or spun in such a way as to make it seem a positive.  There was a software development joke in our pre-work “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature”.  <= Yea…that.  
	Despite what I’ve written sounding like pure unadulterated cynicism, I’m not.  It’s just a reality or basic entropy if that helps explain it for you.  Nothing can ever be perfect.  With that as a given, it should be easy to understand that what I read didn’t really surprise me; although, I am going to seek out the full book to read.  Mr. Lyons painted an interesting picture of life inside HubSpot.  While his tone was fairly obvious, reading through that and dissecting his content yielded some interesting, albeit disturbing, themes.
	“tea

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1. Define CRUD. create, read, update, delete

2. Why do we use set method_override: true? The comment says it allows us to use '_method' in the form. I'm honestly not quite tracking the flow of things through there.

3. Explain the difference between value and name in this line: <input type='text' name='task[title]' value="<%= @task.title %>"/>. The name looks like it's a string to identify the name of the box. The value is using ruby ?injection? to call the title method on @task, task object?, and get that value that it was created with to put in the text area.

4. What are params? Where do they come from?

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# Template: Module 4 Action Plan 
*This is your deliverable from the [Job Search Strategies I session](https://github.com/turingschool/career-development-curriculum/blob/master/module_three/job_search_strategies_i.md)*

## Module 4 Goals
*List your longterm goal(s) of what you want to accomplish by the end of module 4*
  Develop cold-email and face-to-face networking skills.
  Have two job interviews completed by the last day of Mod 4.
### Strategy To Achieve Goals:
In this section, break down your longterm goal into smaller goals that you want to work on each week and/or day
  Attend two professional networking events per month.