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Session 1 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 40 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. 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.

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Professional Development

What is the value of a checklist?

Checklists allow for a clear deliniation of tasks, as well as a record of personal accountability. As I touch on in the next section, I have trouble at times breaking down tasks into smaller pieces. I've found that checklists, when paired with similar techniques are an effective way to outline smaller component pieces that need to be worked on. They serve as an efficient track of status, and also give a nice little intrinsic reward when you can see yourself working through each piece.

What do you plan to improve upon while at Turing?

During my time Turing I hope to improve drastically on my organization and habits. While these are things I've tried to sink a lot of focus into in the past, i've had trouble nailing down a system that fits into my life. I've found more generally that the systems I try to set up end up being duplicate work, or when it comes to organizing notes, I find lots of things that don't fit in

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Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you about 1 hour in total.

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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Gear Up Pre-Work

Turing Culture: Developing Empathetic Programmers

Directions: Submit your Gear Up Pre-Work reflections on the pre-work google doc.

Our mission is to unlock human potential by training a diverse, inclusive student body to succeed in high-fulfillment technical careers.

Why Empathy?

• Interpersonal skills (including empathy) have a direct, significant impact on your professional success.
• Empathy is a foundational interpersonal skill. Other skills, such as collaboration, communication, compromise all hinge on your ability to demonstrate empathy.

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Use this template to when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation.

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

• What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
  • Strengthen of skills or learning new skills
• What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?
• Pair programming, empathetic collaboration style.
• How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
  • Regular check-ins, open lines of communication.

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Project: 1909 Mod 1 Group Project

Group Member Names: 
Joel & Ryan 

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? YES, you can still fully answer this question without knowing exactly what you're going to build.):
Make sure all the functionality works, try have a strong learning takeaway. Good javascript practice. 

Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here):
Perseverance, self-reliance. Good planning skills, interested in understanding. 

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#DTR: Define the Relationship

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

• What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
• What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?
• How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
• How would you describe your work style?
• What are each of our strengths? How can our strengths complement each other?
• What’s gone well or poorly in your previous projects?
• How will we set direction and make decisions as a team?

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How do you get the text from an element (like a paragraph) with jQuery??

If you just retrieve .text() on a selected element will grab selected text for you The .text() method cannot be used on input elements. For input field text, use the .val() method.

How do you set the text of an element (like a paragraph)?

You can also use .text to replace text, by passing the desired text in as an an argument

How do you get the text / content from an input?

.val() without arguments

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Leaderboard class? 

Game
  players (instanciation of player class)
  rounds (instaciation of Round for each round up to 4, handles bonus round)
  puzzles (group of puzzle instanciations) 

Puzzle
  category 
  displayLetters (method to call on each guess to show letters

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Runnerspace Instructions

1. Visit runnerspace.com
2. Scroll through the homepage with your partner, discuss the layout and design. Do you think its set up in a logical way? Why would someone use this website? Some logical structure, but there's too much going on, too busy. For an unfamiliar user it's a lot. Lots of jumping content, weird hover states that are persistent. Duplication, maybe?
3. Complete the follow tasks below. As you go the list, make sure to discuss the steps you took and if things were where you expected them to be on the site.

• As a guest user, add a comment to any article. It says you can add a comment in the text box, but clicking into it makes you create an account. The comment section is below article.
• Find and watch a video associated with any team in Colorado on the runnerspace website. So much popping up and moving around.