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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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Mod 0 Capstone Gear Up

Completed Readings

• "Why is Empathy Important for Design"
• "Why Aren't We More Compassionate?", TED Talk (Daniel Goleman)
• "Three Kinds of Empathy", Daniel Goleman

Written Reflection

After reading the articles above, reflect (4-6 sentences) on the following prompts:

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Mod 0 Capstone Gist

DAY ONE

Chapters 1 and 2 on Structure and Text from HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

1. On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code? HMTL code defines the structure of a website to make it easier for the user to navigate and understand. The HTML code is read and interpreted by the browser.
2. What is the difference between an element and a tag? The terms are often used synonymously but an element typically includes two tags (see empty elements below for an example of a single tag element), an opening tag and a closing tag. The elements tell the browser something about the information included within the tags. Tags act like containers and tell the browser something about the information within the tags. They often come in twos and are the "markup" in Hypertext Markup Language. Tags make-up elements
3. Why do we use attributes in HTML elements? Attributes provide additional information about the contents of the associated tags/element. An attribute of an ele

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Mod O Professional Development

Pairin

• Take the Pairin survey.
• Read this post and watch this video
• Respond to the following questions in a reflection (4-6 sentences):

1. What is your greatest strength and how do you know? I believe that my greatest strength is my ability is my positivity and enthusiasm, my supportive and encouraging nature. Throughout college I played volleyball for the CU Club team. I never thought of myself as the best volleyball player on the team although I worked hard at it, but I worked to be the best teammate. Currently, I workout at a gym called Bella Strength in Boulder and while I love to lift and love to push myself I also love the community of members and giving them praise and encouraging them. Professionally, as a manager this strength also came in handy. I was able to set clear performance expectations and then work to

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DTR: Define the Relationship

DTR Memo

Project: Number Guesser

Group Member Names: Noah Gibson, Alyssa Lundgren

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?):

• Average of Advanced Beginner and Proficient on the project as a whole
• Submitted on time

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Rubric

Functional Expectations

• Novice: Application meets all of the expectations of phase one.
• Advanced Beginner: Application meets all of the expectations of phase two.
• Proficient: Application meets all of the expectations of phase three.
• Exceptional: Application adds three or more of the extensions from phase four.

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Template for DTR Memo Project: Idea Box

Group Member Names: Amy Rippeto, Eric O'Neill, Alyssa Lundgren

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?):

• Hone previous JS, HTML, CSS skills
• Score between advanced beginner and proficient
• Learn about and utilize localStorage and JSON
• Communication amongst our teammates

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Agile & Feedback Reflection Guidelines

1. What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects?

• First off, it was a pleasure to have Jeff lead this lecture. I appreciate so much that he was able to review these concepts with our Mod 1 group. Agile and waterflow both have the same steps but vary in their approach to software development. Waterfall is a more linear progression from requirements, to design, to development, into testing and from there to deployment. The process results in a big outcome at the end which can quickly become outdated because the process is so long. The end result must be clearly defined at the beginning, there is no feedback on the product until the process is complete, and the product is never accountable to the customer until the very end. Alternatively, Agile workflow is more of an iterative, circular workflow than waterfall. It tightens the process, shortening the distance between the customer and the product, and allows the development team to

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Project Name: FitLit

Partners: Emily Lalonde and Alyssa Lundgren

Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:

What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?

• Manipulating data
• Improve array prototypes
• Git workflow

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DTR: Define the Relationship

Project: Game Time

Group Member Names:Chris Lane, Jon O'Drobinak, Alyssa Lundgren

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?):

• Get as far as we can, shoot to finish every iteration (want to do animation and AI player extensions)
• Last day before the project due to refactor and tighten - what we turn in should be tight