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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 (60 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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Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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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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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Session 4 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 50 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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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Jim's Beginners Guide to Git

git is a distributed version control system. It is designed to coordinate programming work with version, forking and comments to track progress of a project.

common git commands

• git init (initialize the folder for .git ) do not git init more than once
• git status (check status of git vs modified or commited files)
• git add
• git commit -m "comment here and/or first time = Initial commit"
• git log (checks log for commit)

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Markdown quick reference cheat sheet See the Markdown page for instructions on enabling Markdown for posts, pages and comments on your blog, and for more detailed information about using Markdown.

Markdown Processed Emphasis Emphasize emphasize Strong Strong Emphasize Strong Some WordPress.com themes may have different formatting for these styles

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Turing Career Development - Mod 0 Capstone

Developing Mindsets to Succeed

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

When you're transitioning careers, often many other aspects of your approach to work and life undergo a transition as well. Turing aims to be a place where you can work through these transitions successfully. While enrolled at Turing and during your subsequent job search, you'll be provided with tools and strategies to develop the professional skills necessary to enter a new career as a software developer.

The pre-work for career development is focused on introducing you to a set of mindsets that we at Turing believe will make you a successful programmer. These mindsets are:

• Agency: Taking initiative and ownership over your learning and work
• Empathy: Understanding and sharing others' emotions in order to relate to them

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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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Day 1

On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code?

• it describes the structure of the pages - What is the difference between an element and a tag?
• the same, used interchangeably - Why do we use attributes in HTML elements?
• attributes tell us more about elements - Describe the purpose of the head, title, and body HTML elements.
• head: contains info about the page rather than the info shown in the page
• title: contains the shown at the top of the browser page above the url

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Reflect
After reading the articles above, create a gist on Github and reflect (4-6 sentences) on the following prompts.

What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
- I can be a bit of an empath. At times I can feel other emotions and give me inpressions of them. At times it is overwhelming and I have to block.  
How does empathy help you build better software?
-Well one could see that you might have a different idea how or what the main point of the software would be. Where if you can empathize with the user you might have a different impression of what their best use of the software would be. 
Why is empathy important for working on a team?
- because people would be able to work together more easily creating synergy. 
Describe a situation in which your ability to empathize with a colleague or teammate was helpful.