- What is a career journal? The journal will help guide you through the process of discovering who you are as a new developer and how that translates into your career goals. It’s a way to check in with yourself through self-reflection, prompts, and questions, organize your targeted job search, and remember who you met as you build a professional network.
- Make it your own. Add questions and areas to reflect on each week. Just don’t forget to share all of your successes and achievements along the way!
- Ongoing progress checks. Throughout each module, you'll respond to the other prompts and update your progress in your document during professional development workshops and set aside work time.
- Module Expectations. A completed career journal is required for successfully passing each module. The career development team will be assessing your progress throughout the module, and you will submit it for final review in week 6. You will also include highlights from your progress in
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- Often feels like navel gazing--what is so fascinating about me that I need to think about myself?
- I think journaling is important. If you take account of your days and what happened and how you felt, you will probably start having more insight into how you work.
I wrote my map out on paper, if it’s something I need to upload I can get that done
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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?
- They are kind, curious, and driven. Easy to talk to in the workplace, possess knowledge, eager to learn about their blind spots. I would like to work with this person!
- They probably write code that their co-workers don't need to read through a bunch of documentation to understand, make a lot of commits, take good notes about the things they are doing incase it isn't clear on first pass what is going on.
Who do you want to be as a software developer? What kind of behaviors do you already have in place to be that person? What behaviors would you need to put into place? How will you do that?
- I want to be a software developer that helps makes things more accessable via code. I think I am a curious person and I
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How have you seen yourself become more aware of your habits? Have you tried implementing anything new? What have the results been?
- Before the holidays I felt like I was doing a better job of recognizing habits but was lax over break. When I was paying attention I would make sure to move in the morning which always makes me feel good.
How would you rate your overall health on a scale of 1-5? How do you currently make time for activities associated with your health? What is a small change you could make here to readjust your health ratings?
- like a 3.5 I feel fine. I have gained too much weight during the pandemic so I am trying to diet. Physical feel like the weakest element of my health, but I feel it trending in the right direction. Cutting out the beer from diet seems like a good start.
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How have you seen yourself become more aware of your habits? Have you tried implementing anything new? What have the results been?
- I have been getting up earlier to work out! It helps clear my mind(and I've lost some lbs) and when I don't do it my days aren't as good. I know that if I am very busy it is usually the first thing I will neglect. Trying to cut back on the booze too has been helpful. Just a matter of getting in a routine.
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?
- Don't be immediately be dismissive of a career because you don't know what it is. It sounds a little corny but not knowing about what a job's responsibilities are is just a learning opportunity . I haven't really built any habits around this yet but I want to get better at reaching out to people in the Turin
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- 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?
- Making sure you make the time to practice basic skills on your own time. Repetition has always been key to building proficiency in new skills for me. A day planner has helped me in the past-- I can more easily visualize where something fits into a schedule and it is nice to scratch something off a to-do list.
- As you start this new career, what is one of your strengths and how do you know?
- Curiosity. If something breaks I want to know how to fix it and part of that entails having a working understanding how something works. I just repaired our washing machine after watching some youtube tutorials and that felt good.
- Describe how you work best (conditions, environment, preferences, etc.):
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Answer these Check for Understanding questions as you work through the assignments.
- What is HTML?
- Hyper Text Markup Language, describes the structure of a web page, the standard markup language. Need to start with a declartion
<!DOCTYPE html>. not case sensitive but use lower case.
- What is an HTML element?
- Anything between the start tag
and the end tag
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