The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.
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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):
- Growth mindset is key in overcoming the challenges of learning a new language. Perseverence and discipline are paramount.
- I am familiar with chunking and will be utilizing it as best I can during my time at Turing.
- Work hard, and reward is coming.
2. How to Google Programming Problems Effectively by Lulu Li (15 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
- Being specific in keyword searches
- Reading through multiple answers on places like Stackflow, getting a better understanding of how and why things work for certain devs.
- Opening multiple tabs is something I do not practice right now, I've always liked the simplicity of one or two max. This will be a fun overcoming of my minimalist browser aesthetic preference.
3. 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):
- Google frequently. Obvious, but potent.
- Blindly copying and pasting is not an effective way of learning.
4. 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: Use quotations in specific phrasing. Google will search the exact phrase that way. Rather than removing elements array, search "remove elements in an array"
- Tip 3: utilize hypen - to exclude certain searches. This is new to me and awesome. Searching fork -food.
- Tip 4: utilize colons to search on specific sites. Search Joe Biden:cnn.com
- Tip 9: utilize OR to search for multiple phrases or words/ideas. Search cats OR mice.
- Tip 13: use vernacular that you would expect to see on a website. Rather than whats on my finger? search growth on finger.
- Tip 14: stay specific, using too many words excludes many results. Rather than Where can I find a store that will deliver ramen noodles to me, search ramen noodle delivery nearby.
- Tip 17: use descriptive words and remember others may search differently than you. Search yoga studios with big windows in Denver and search beautiful yoga studios in Denver.
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
Nice work, @julianenochs! I like your takeaway that blindly copying and pasting is not an effective way of learning. In my experience, blindly copying and pasting can also become super frustrating when your program does not work but you don't understand why! At some point, you have to understand your code in order to debug it.