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Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 1.5 total hours.

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. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
• I like how she broke down learning words in chunks of 5 and repetition allowed her to learn characters and words.

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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 (75 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)

You can reference 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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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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What is Git?

• Git is a system that allows you to save and track your previous work progress while developing software.
• Allows developers to collaborate on projects.
• Designed for speed, security, and compatibility with other systems.
• It has more commands than other version control systems but that can also make it difficult to learn.

Most common terminal commands

1. change directory cd or cd <directory> (don't include brackets)
2. list stuff ls
3. print working directory pwd

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What is your greatest strength and how do you know?
I think my greatest strength is my ability to empathize with others. Even though I don't always have the same experiences as others, I can find a way to walk in their shoes and understand what they're going through. I am very open-minded and can fit in with anybody because of my professional history working in a courthouse, clinic, and in the service industry as a rideshare driver. I do not get easily offended or turned off so I can work with almost anybody even when our views of the world are different.
How do you work best?
I work best in an environment with great leadership and opportunity to grow. I've had jobs where I was stuck in the same pattern with no forseeable way out of my position. Although I did the best I could, I feel like working with an experienced team helps motivate me to be the best that I can be. My current job as a rideshare driver is fun because I can talk with others and I believe that everybody knows something that I d

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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
Empathy has helped me in my personal and professional life. As a medic in the military it was important to empathize with patients as well as co-workers who were going through tough times. As an Uber driver, I pick up people from all walks of life. One ride I'll be picking up a poor student or blue collar worker and dropping them off in their small apartment they can barely afford, and the next passenger will be heading from an expensive restaurant out to their 8-bedroom mansion. It is very important for me to deal with everybody in the same manner and not treat people differently.
How does empathy help you build better software?
Empathy will help me build better software because I can associate with all users and putting myself in their shoes while building a program. Listening to your users without empathy will create an undesirable program design. Their input is important because you want to create a long-lasting relationship

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Junior Software Developer:

Job Overview: We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who are willing to work in a fast-paced environment who would be okay traveling a few times per year. An understanding in programming languages is a must in our team-driven environment. We will provide additional training for the qualified candidate in order to secure success in our growing organization.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and update software data
• Test and maintain software products to make sure they're running well
• Tests and debugs assigned components and units
• Troubleshoots problems and provides customer support for software operating systems and application issues