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caward12 / pre-mod-4-reflection.md
Last active June 25, 2017 19:33 — forked from case-eee/pre-mod-4-reflection.md
These are reflection questions for students entering backend module 4.

M4 Reflection

Fork this gist and answer these questions to reflect on your learning experiences.

  • What brought you to Turing?

    • I was unhappy with my career in communications and marketing and knew I needed to make a change. I started to look at the areas of the job I did enjoy and working our websites and writing html/css for email newsletters was at the top of that list. I did a couple of the courses on Codeacademy and then enrolled in a 20 week part-time class through a local nonprofit that met 2x a week. I really enjoyed the class but knew that if I wanted to make a real switch, I needed to something full-time. I started researching programs, knowing I did not want to go back for another degree. Turing was my first choice for several reasons - focus on diversity, was a non profit, the education background of the curriculum. I applied in November and enrolled for January 2017!

  • Where do you see yourself after Turing?

  • Ideally working in a software development job at a company/organization t
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caward12 / setting_expectations_little_shop.markdown
Last active April 13, 2017 22:20 — forked from Carmer/setting_expectations.markdown
Setting Expectations

Setting Group Expectations

Group Member Names: Beth Knight, Sergey Lukyanenko, Craig Ness, Colleen Ward

  1. When are group members available to work together? What hours can each group member work individually? Are there any personal time commitments that need to be discussed?
  • Beth needs to pick up her dogs at 7
  • free weekends
  • in general, we have no lives outside of Turing.
  • Sergey, Colleen and Craig can stay until 7/8
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caward12 / sessions.md
Last active April 3, 2017 17:43 — forked from case-eee/sessions.md
Sessions, Cookies, and Flashes

Sessions, Cookies, and Flashes

  1. If we didn't have cookies and sessions, what would happen?
  • you would not be able to "hold on to" data between http requests since http is stateless - it does not know about any other requests previously made.
  1. What is a cookie?
  • a cookie is a key value pair stored in a user's browser until its specified experation date.
  1. What's the difference between a cookie and a session?
  • A session is an entire hash and is a secure version of a cookie. Cookies are just key value pairs. Session is stored server side and cookie is stored browser side.
  1. What's serialization and how does it come into play with sessions?
  • the value data is unreadable by humans and you have to have the key to "de-serialize" it. It makes session data more secure unlike cookie data that you can change easily.
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caward12 / how_the_web_works.md
Last active March 14, 2017 02:28 — forked from Carmer/how_the_web_works.md
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caward12 / cw-prework.md
Last active January 23, 2017 03:12 — forked from mbburch/prework.md
Turing pre-work Gist