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React Router Prework

This gist contains a short assignment I'd like everyone to complete before our formal lesson. The prework involves reading some of the React Router documentation, and will allow us to keep the lesson more hands on.

Instructions

1. Fork this gist
2. On your own copy, go through the listed readings and answer associated questions
3. Comment a link to your forked copy on the original gist

Questions / Readings

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Project: Idea Box

Group Member Names: Alex, Jenna, Liliana

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?):

• A complete understanding of HTML, CSS, & JavaScript as a whole
• Get a grip on grid
• Completing the iterations on time, DRY & SRP code, refactor before moving on to the next iteration

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Hang In There Reflection

Abstract

This project was the first paired project of the first module, meaning that neither my partner nor I had worked on a paired project at Turing yet. The goal of the project was to write the JavaScript to create a functioning, dynamic webpage that generates random motivational posters and generates posters from user input. The HTML and CSS of the page were given to us prewritten, and we were not supposed to (and did not) edit either. This project required us to work on our understanding of the DOM, as well as how to use git/Github as a team.

Overall

I was lucky enough to be paired with someone with a similar work ethic to me, although that did have its own set of challenges. I tend to hunker down and power through projects (forgetting to take breaks), which my project partner does as well. We had to learn to remind ourselves and each other to take breaks. I found this somewhat challenging because I typically do not take on leadership roles on teams (or at least I ne

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• create a button that says "tell my fortune" or something like that
• create an html element, a p or an h, that is empty
• create two queryselectors to make the html element and button useable by javascript
• create an array of fortunes, with 10 affirmative answers, 5 non-committal, and 5 negative (just like the real thing!)
• the elements in the array should be strings
• attach an event listener to the button that listens for a click and calls a function called tellFortune
• create a random number generator function, to pick a number from the array. it should:
• 1. pass in the array as a parameter
• 2. return a random index number from the array, which should be an integer
• create a function (event handler) for tellFortune, inside of which do the following:

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Project: Hang in There

Group Member Names: Liliana & Naomi

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?):

• Gain confidence with linking JS & HTML
• Smooth git workflow / effectively manage git workflow
• Confidently navigate DOM
• Satisfaction of building something

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Capstone Professional Development

• What is your greatest strength and how do you know? My greatest strength is tenacity. I know this because I have consistently powered through difficult courses and projects throughout my academic career and personal life. Even when I felt like giving up, I have kept going and never got below a B- in college, while being awarded distinction on my thesis. I guess this is the tugboat characteristic.
• How do you work best?