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• What motivates you? * A big reason I decided to become a software engineer is because I not only love STEM fields but I also want to be able to provide for my mom. It really would mean the world if I could be making enough money so that I'm able to take care of some of the bills for her and hopefully take care of her in the future.

• How will you keep yourself going when faced with rejection in the job search? * I will take it as an opportunity to refine my interviewing and tech skills so I can use rejection as a means to be a better software engineer. I know that I will get a job when the time is right.

• How will you hold yourself accountable to your plans? * I realize that I am under a deadline and am running low on money so I have no choice but to hold myself accountable and to do everything in my power to get a job.

• How do you like to communicate? *

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Job Mentorship Requirements:

1. I want mentoring on the job search because I want to gain insight from those who have gone through thos process before and can tell me what I need to work on, and what to play up. Going into tech interviews are far different from any kind of interview process I have done before and I want to have some guidance before I go into my first one.

2. The schedule that I have created for myself as a part of these requirements is a template that I could use in the weeks to come. During the week I've set up enough small time frames that I can implement advice given to me by my mentor and group with the goal of having one application out by the end of each week leading up to week 6.

3. Ideally I'd like to land a full time position with the title of Backend Engineer. However, I'm interested by the idea of having an internship or apprenticeship that could help me strengthen my skills before I go all in. I think this would be a great way for me to get my foot in the door for a company. I

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*---Values, Types, and Operators---*

*Values* are fragments of data that represent pieces of information. They can take the form of data types like numbers, strings, boolean and undefined values.

*Numbers* are limited to 2^(64) bits and are able to have arthimetic performed on to them. 
  -fractional numbers are approximations
  -PEMDAS 
  - +- infinity, and NAN are numerical values even though they aren't represented mathematically.
  
*Strings* are used to represent text.

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I know of an app called 'Be My Eyes' that allows people with vision impairments to connect with sighted volunteers to visually assist them. I think it would be cool to pull from this idea and create an app that would be centered around finding volunteers to get together to help those with various disabilities, not just those with vision impairments. Ideally the app could be used to gather volunteers to help do something like build a ramp for someone who uses a wheelchair. Or maybe even if someone who had Parkinson's disease could use our app to have someone volunteer to go to the grocery store with them. I think that this is something that could be accomplished with Rails and JS in the frontend. I know that we're shifting gears from Rails though, but I would assume that we could get the job done with Node?

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### Sleep Safe

### Pitch
Sleep Safe is an application that would provide the homeless with quick information about the homeless shelter's in their area so they can have a safe space to sleep at night.

### Solution
Proposition 300 was an initiative that was dismissed earlier this year, but would have allowed the homeless to rest or shelter themselves in a non-obstructive manner in outdoor public places. Our application aims to provide the homeless with a simple text message that would give them a list of homeless shelters in their area. In addition to this, users would be able to visit our application's website which would provide them with more information and filters to suit their specific needs.

### Target Audience
Our app is designed specifically for the homeless. 

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Why you want to connect with this person and what you want to talk about I chose a former student Teresa Knowles. I chose her specifically because she's navigating the tech industry as a brown, queer woman and I think having insight as to what she's dealt with in the job search/work place will be very beneficial for me. Hopefully she'll be able to give me some questions to think about when looking for a job and knowing what I want/need from that job.

When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet I'm planning on reaching out to Teresa over break to check-in and see how she's been and how life is post-Turing. I would love to meet in person, maybe over coffee but I'd even take the opportunity to talk via Slack.

What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them I'll follow up with Teresa by reaching out to her with any questions I think of.

What other steps will you take to start building a stronger network in the tech community?

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From a young age I knew the importance of education. For me, pursuing school was not a choice so much as it was an epectation from my family. These expectations really started with my great-grandparents who immigrated from Mexico to Colorado in the early 1920s. They instilled the value of education in their daughters who would then go on to inspire future generations of Montelongos (family's last name) to get their degrees.

My journey to higher education started at CU Boulder where I studied mathematics and spanish. I really enjoy mathematics and understanding how exactly it works, so I thought the ideal career for me was teaching. I was so wrong! I did a little bit of student teaching and found really that although I enjoy mathematics, other people really don't. And it's disheatening to put your all into something that people don't seem to care about. So I finished up my time at CU and graduated with my degree in mathematics and a minor in spanish, and I was totally under the mindset that my ma

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B2 Intermission Work

Answer these Check for Understanding questions as you work through the assignments.

HTML

1. What is HTML? HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

• HTML describes the structure of web pages using markup.

1. What is an HTML element? Elements can be described as the building blocks of HTML pages. They are represented by tags which are used to label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", ...

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Project: Battleships

Group Member Names: Tay & Will

Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?): We have aspirations to learn more about TDD and how to write efective code.

Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here): Will is good at working long hours and Tay is good at moderating work hours.

How we can use our strengths to overcome obstacles: Will and I have stregths that balance eachother out. Will is super persistent while Tay is super consistent.

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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?

I utilize empathy everyday when I'm interacting and communicating with other individuals, but it's more apparent when I'm with my friends and family. I really like to check in on my loved ones and listen to what they have to say and I'm always present and engaged in what they're saying or feeling. In this aspect, empathy has been able to benefit me by making me a better friend, child, cousin, grandchild by aiding me in developing more intimate relationships with friends and family. Another benefit of being empathetic is that it's easier to understand people's intentions and gain more perspective.

How does empathy help you build better software?

Something that I'm still comprehending and gaining perspective on is the impact that software design has on a variety of communities. Quite literally it could only take a handful of empathetic software designers to make the lives of so many people better in some aspect. Having empathy is a