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ericwm76 / mod_0_session_2_readings.md
Last active April 9, 2019 01:54 — forked from rwarbelow/mod_0_session_2_readings.md
Mod 0 Session 2 Readings

Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

  • Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3): -My favorite line was "To me, creativity and innovation? These things stem from an intense and intimate understanding of a system." It's difficult (not impossible) to come up with new ideas unless you have mastery in the area in which you are trying to innovate, mostly because it's difficult to know which problems need solving.
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ericwm76 / mod_0_session_2_practice_tasks.md
Last active April 9, 2019 03:19 — forked from rwarbelow/mod_0_session_2_practice_tasks.md
Mod 0 Session 2 Practice Tasks

Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 2 hours.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Documentation and Googling (75 min)

Documentation of a langauge, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.

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ericwm76 / mod_0_session_3_practice_tasks.md
Last active April 12, 2019 23:40 — forked from rwarbelow/mod_0_session_3_practice_tasks.md
Mod 0 Session 3 Practice Tasks

Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

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ericwm76 / mod_0_session_4_practice_tasks.md
Created April 14, 2019 21:06 — 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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ericwm76 / mod_0_assessment_checklist.md
Last active April 17, 2019 00:20 — forked from rwarbelow/mod_0_assessment_checklist.md
Mod 0 Technical Assessment Checklist

Checklist/Rubric

Part I: Creating Directories and Files; Initializing Git and Pushing to GitHub

  • I named my directories correctly.
  • I named my files correctly.
  • I structured my files and directories correctly.
  • I made one initial commit.
  • I pushed my initial commit to GitHub.
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ericwm76 / EricMeldrum-mod-0-capstone.md
Last active June 24, 2019 02:52
Turing Mod 0 Capstone

Link to CodePen work: https://codepen.io/emeldrum/pen/MdMNZO

Day 1

HTML and CSS Chapters 1 and 2: Structure and Text

On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code? HTML is used to give structure to the contents of a web page.

What is the difference between an element and a tag? Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, but more accurately, an element consists of an opening tag, a closing tag, and all the content contained by the tags.

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ericwm76 / EricMeldrum-pd-prework.md
Last active June 12, 2019 12:01

Pairin Top 4

What is your greatest strength and how do you know? My greatest strength is my imagination. I'm at my best and happiest when I am able to imagine the possibilities for a project, a product, or the world, especially when I have other people who are right there with me bouncing ideas and imagining possibilities without judgment. I believe it's my greatest strength because it's when I feel the most joy working.

How do you work best? I work best when I have a clear understanding of exactly what I need to do, and the free reign to go do it. If I'm fuzzy or unclear on exactly how to do something, I tend to procrastinate that thing, but if I'm clear on what to do and how to do it, I'm good. I also work well with a boss who treats me as an equal, rather than an underling, but in a way that still holds me accountable.

What is your greatest area of improvement? As I alluded to in the question above

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ericwm76 / EricMeldrum-mod-0-gear_up.md
Last active June 12, 2019 11:44

Gear Up

Reflect

What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you? From 2016 to 2018, I taught entrepreneurship at an entrepreneurship-focused charter high school in Colorado Springs. The five key skills that I taught my students in the curriculum I designed were creativity, experimentation, play, reflection, and empathy. Every activity, every project was designed to help students master at least one of these five skills, because it is impossible to be a successful entrepreneur without them. In my personal life, I believe that empathy is the glue that binds us together. By having empathy for another human being, I am able to see the world, and all its attendant trials and triumphs, from a different perspective. I am able to find connection with someone who may not have much in common with me.

How does empathy help you build better software? Empathy is the key that unlocks great design, for software and any other type of product. Every great product is either useful or fun (pre

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ericwm76 / EricMeldrum-ideabox-reflection
Last active July 29, 2019 18:31
IdeaBox Reflection
Agile & Feedback Reflection Guidelines
In interviews, you'll be asked about how you approach working in projects, and being able to describe how you utilize agile processes is a great way to help you stand out as a junior developer candidate. This reflection is meant to help you develop this skill.
With that in mind, please answer the following questions in your own gist about your group project:
What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects?
I used to teach entrepreneurship to high school students, and I taught them all about Lean Startup methodologies, so I've known about Agile for years. At the heart of it, agile is the principle of doing lots of testing and experimentation with your end users early, quickly and cheaply so that you don't sink a ton of time, energy and money into something without making sure it really solves a real problem for real people.
How did you and your group approach project management in this project (what tools did you use, how did you hold e
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ericwm76 / networking-plan
Created September 9, 2019 13:50
Who your contact is, why you want to connect with them, and what you want to talk about:
This past week, I reached out to Dan Baliczek, a software developer who works for Junior Achievement USA in Colorado Springs. He and I were on the same team in the GoCode Colorado Competition two years in a row, and he knows my non-technical skills well.
When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet:
He was excited to hear that I am now becoming a developer, and he immediately asked me for my resume, because he has a friend who is currently hiring junior devs. I will meet with him during the next intermission, give him an updated copy of my resume, and talk more about the lay of the land in Colorado Springs tech.
What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them:
Provide him a copy of my resume and see if he can connect me to the Bender-Carey Group, the company he mentioned that is hiring.
What other steps will you take to start building a stronger network in the tech community: