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Last active March 3, 2019 22:34 — forked from rwarbelow/mod_0_session_4_practice_tasks.md
Mod 0 Session 4 Practice Tasks

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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chakeresa / Gear Up Prework Gist.md
Last active March 2, 2019 19:30

Articles read: -"The Surprising (Nontechnical) Skill You Need to Succeed in Tech", The Muse -- https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-surprising-and-nontechnical-skill-you-need-to-succeed-in-tech -"Can you teach people to have empathy?", BBC (Jun 29, 2015) -- https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33287727 -"Three Kinds of Empathy", Daniel Goleman -- http://www.danielgoleman.info/three-kinds-of-empathy-cognitive-emotional-compassionate/

Reflect on these questions: -why are we talking about empathy at a software development school? -how can you develop the "skill" of empathy? -why should you care?

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chakeresa / PD Prework Gist.md
Last active February 17, 2019 03:37

https://github.com/turingschool/career-development-curriculum/blob/master/prework/pd_prework.md

Activity #1: three behaviors of unstoppable programmers that resonanted with me (http://blog.thefirehoseproject.com/posts/29-behaviors-will-make-unstoppable-programmer/)

#2 "Maintain an obnoxious amount of stick-to-itiveness" This behavior has to do with sticking with it even when the task at hand seems impossible. This one resonated with me because I'm currently learning how to speak Dutch. When I first started, it felt impossible to even get the pronunciation right. Eventually, that became a cinch. Next, I watched a movie and freaked out that I couldn't understand anything. Over time, I learned how to learn and not freak out. I pace myself by sticking to "age appropriate" materials -- starting with kids books and moving onto materials meant for teenagers. I think getting through that experience of learning something new and overwhelming will help me stick to it with my programming ed