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Mod 1 - Week 5

Habits Reflection:

How have you seen yourself become more aware of your habits? Have you tried implementing anything new? What have the results been?

I am continuing the healthy habits that I started in week 1 and have reflected on previously in this journal. One recent addition is that I am encouraging project teammates to be communicative and clear about expectations for time, meetings, etc.

Design Thinking Reflection: Cultivating Beginner’s Mind

How can beginner’s mind be helpful when it comes to thinking about your career and job search? What are some habits you could put into place to cultivate beginner’s mind regularly?

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Mod 1 Week 4:

Habits Reflection:

1. How have you seen yourself become more aware of your habits? Have you tried implementing anything new? What have the results been? Start Where You Are (Empathize with the user – you)

Because time management and intentionality are so important to meeting the demands of Turing, I have closely examined my habits and routines. My daily morning routine, which is on a three day exercise rotation, is something that I implemented at the start of Turing to make sure that was still getting the mental and physical health boost from exercise. I have also started taking a short walk, even just around my block, during any break that is 10 minutes or longer.

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Mod 1 Week 3: Habits & Accountability Systems

Habits of a Software Developer

What do you think are the traits of a good software developer? What are they like in the workplace? What would you as a co-worker think of this person?

• Patient, curious, passionate, resilient, open, communicative, resourceful.

What are the habits that this person demonstrates to embody the identity of a software developer?

• Takes the time to actively listen to users, teammates, customers, etc.

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Week 2 - Building Your Compass

Power of self-reflection

• What is challenging about self-reflection?

Finding the time for it is difficult. It can also be hard to be honest with yourself. Also, sometimes I get negative and hard on myself.

• How can you continue to build the habit of self-reflection at Turing?

These weekly journal exercises will surely inspire greater reflection. I also like to have reflective conversations throughout the week with my partner.

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Week 1 - Understanding Your Strengths

1. Describe one of your strengths:

• What is something you have learned to do well (list a skill)?

I can take effective notes.

• What is something you know about (list some knowledge/expertise you have)?

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Career Journal - Bruce Gordon

Mod 0 Questions

1. When you've worked towards a goal in the past, what systems or tools have been helpful for you in accomplishing that goal? How could you adapt those same systems/tools to use while at Turing?

In the past I have used organization, planning, and clear deadlines to reach my goals. I worked primarily in public education from 2007 to 2020, which is a hectic working environment. I used clearly marked and organized folders (both paper and digital) to keep track of key documents and tools that I used at work. This included using my GoogleDrive and GoogleDocs, Spreadsheets, etc. In terms of planning and deadlines, I regularly utilized my online calendars to track meetings and upcoming deadlines. I also kept a paper journal with a "To do" list that was always visible on my desk. I plan to apply this same approach to organization and planning while I am in Turing so that I can keep all relevant files and materials organized, and so that I can stay on top of

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Top Thinking Style

Strongest Driver

Top EQ Competency

Highest Virtue Class

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Beginners Guide to data types

Introduction

A data type is the kind of data that can be used in a language, and also describes the way that we represent information, or data. Data types include:

1. String - Used to represent text, in quotations
2. Number

• Integer - A whole number which can be positive, negative, or zero
• Float - A number with a decimal, which can be positive or negative

3. Boolean - A piece of data that is only represented as true or fasle