CAREFULLY READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE STARTING THESE EXERCISES!
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.
You will be practicing pre-teaching yourself some content based on actual lessons you will be working with at Turing. There are a few things to understand about pre-teaching:
- Pre-teaching is not designed to make you an expert about a topic before you learn it
- Pre-teaching will allow you to dedicate more focus in your lessons to areas that are unclear or confusing
- Taking some basic notes prior to a lesson will allow you to focus more on the content and less on "keeping up"
- Writing questions you have ahead of time will ensure that any areas of confusion are addressed in class
For this exercise, you will be pre-teaching yourself the first technical lesson you'll receive at Turing!
- Acquire a notebook to take hand written notes in
- Setup a Table of Contents in your notebook
- Add photo of your Table of Contents in the Deliverables section
- Read through the lesson and take some notes in your notebook
- Add a picture of one page of your notes in the Deliverables section
- Write down 3-5 questions you have about the content in the lesson or questions related to the content and add to the Deliverables section
- Identify 1-2 resources OUTSIDE OF TURING that you can use to clarify any of the content in the lesson and add to the Deliverables section
A few tips for taking notes ahead of time:
- You don't need to write down every single word from the lesson - try to get down the main points in an outline form, key phrases/explanations, etc. This process will take time to figure out!
- Give yourself enough room to add notes later during class - you'll often need space to add context, create visuals, and make connections to other content during a lesson
- Consider using different colors to help organize your notes or highlight syntax
Add a photo of your Table of Contents below
Add a photo of one page of your notes below
Write 3-5 questions you have after pre-reading this lesson here
- What is the purpose of using pry over irb?
- Are there limitations to creating our own methods? Are there things we can't do?
- Since parenthesis are optional when passing arguments, are there instances when the parenthesis are required?
Add links to 1-2 resources from OUTSIDE OF TURING that relate to this lesson