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    Session 1 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 40 minutes.
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1. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Coding in Flow (15 min)


 Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
The very targeted quotation mark searches for specific phrases seems very helpful for very niched information.
Excluding whole websites or sources is a new use of "-" operator I have not utilized before.
Image searching in general is never an approach I've taken when searching for any learning material.

2. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)


 Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
While im familiar with googling for assistance on specific errors, evaluating and utilizing small portions of many recommendations is a new, useful take.
The keyword examples were useful to see.

3. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)


 Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
Tip 2: Using quotes to search for specific phrases allows for a more targeted search. So instead of searching for pages which could contain any of python debug tutorial, which despite being a poor example, could return results for working with your pet python, encapsulated in quotes would return websites pertaining to the whole phrase, with a reduced but non-zero chance to be referring to your pet python.
Tip 3: Including hyphens allows you to exclude certain phrases from your search. So to build on the previous example, of "python debug tutorial" we might want to exclude the phrase snakes, using -snakes to reduce the chance that you'll recieve content pertaining to said pet python.
Tip 4: To search for content only on a specific site you can utilize a colon and the operator site. So to continue using the bad vague example which would return nothing of real value, but for our purposes will function. You might search "python debug tutorial" site:Stackoverflow.com, to return code based results and avoid results from pythonowningsingles.com which may be enticing, but won't help your understanding of debugging processes.
Tip 9: You can also search for multiple words or phrases with operators, such as "Python debugging tutorial" OR "Debugging Python, a practical users guide".
Tip 13: Using search terminology as it's likely written in the web content, or in the page's metadata helps returns more results than writing queries in an interogative Ask-Jeeve's style format. So a block of keywords, rather than descriptive phrases, such as Python string properties as opposed to what can I do with strings in Python?. While the second result might get you what you're after in this case, the first would be more targeted and would likely return more results.
Tip 14: Excluding unnecessary words also helps refine the results. Given the previous example. You might instead be searching List of possible Python string properties, those excess words create noise in the results.
Tip 17: changing the phrasing of searches might pull up content which contains the same data, but was just described or keyed under different phrases. So Bubble Sort Utilization might return different results than Bubble Sort Tutorial.

4. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would like an instructor to address, list them below:

This might be a commonly asked question, but which of the specific Google methods mentioned have you had the best results with?
Additionally, any tips on searches you find you commonly need to rephrase? What's your method there?