natevenn

(Who am I)

I consider myself a  builder in every sense of the word. 
Whether it’s building physical spaces, a sense of community, relationships, or software, 
I find great joy in working with my hands, my mind, and people. 
As my past experiences demonstrate, I have gained knowledge and skills in working 
successfully within and across diverse environments and populations. 
I bring a strong background in working collaboratively with teams and leading teams 
in a open minded, creative and solution-oriented way.

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Be timely with response
To find out about a companies culture - ask specific question:
- what are the extremes such as what works really well at the company and what needs impovement
- actively listen so you can ask follow-up questions ( really dig in )

Find and seek people.
- when trying to schedule a meeting - be specific on location, date, time.

How to deal with salary
- what are you offering for this position 

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Name: Nate Venn

Which Assignments and Why?

• Which assignments did you choose to complete this week?
  • The Plan
  • Community Involvment
• Why did you choose these assignments?
  • I chose the the community involvment because I feel that being part of a community is what will help me get a job and also keep me engaged.

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What is Flux?
 - action, dispatch(controller), store(data layer), view(view can pass an action back to the dispatcher)
    - action creators are like the methods and helpers for the dispatcher
    - dispatcher makes sure there are no cascading effects or i.e. one action in the store at a time
    - store is where the logic is done and manipulates state then passes down to child in the view
 - show a image of a flux diagram
 - Its a pattern not a framework
   - maybe examples of common implementations of the pattern (redux)
Why Flux?
 - compare and contrast the MVC model

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Scheduling
 - Wed - Brennan and Heidi have off weds night
 - Fri - Heidi goes home early
 - Mon - Heidi gone from 5-7pm

Work style
 - Brennan 
   - prefers not to work early in the mornings
   - conforms
   - prefers pairing, but can work solo

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**Step One**: Watch [Sorting Algorithms in JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyqlhjXYQI)

**Step Two**: Fork this gist.

**Step Three**: Respond to this question in your fork: "What are some of the balances and trade offs between different sorting algoritms?"
  - Insertion
   - pros are that it is a stable sort and good for small data sets (use if you are sorting on the browser)
   - cons are that its slow with big data (O(n2)
  -Bubble 
    - pros are that it is easy to implement and good for small data

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List 5 companies you might want to apply for:

2 companies you think you'd like to work for

• NREL - National Renewable Energy Labortory
• eGauge 2 companies you don't really want to work for but that have a job posting somewhere you'd like to live
• All State

1 dream company (BaseCamp, Funny or Die, Github... somewhere it's hard to get hired but wouldn't that be cool, eh?) *

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##Leap

my code

responder 1 this person created variables for each calculation and then calls on that variable in the conditional. This is probably good practice for more complicated nested functions but for this problem I dont think its necessary

responder 2 this person kept it simple and evaluated the parameter using && and or operands, similar to me. They kept it very simple by just returning the evaluated statement and saved a couple of lines

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Other than the first time I wrote some JS code that chained several callback functions that each required parameters and 
I ended up passing in 6 parameters to the initial function, I havent had to pass more then five parameters in ruby. Therefore 
I dont see the four method argument that challenging yet. So I then must say that the one instance variable per controller action
is probably the hardest to follow. I can think of numerous views that need access to different objects and classes. But the one
solution mentions (facade pattern) seemed like a easy solution to the one instance variable.

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Ajax is a way to load data on the browser without reloading the page
It uses a browser's built-in XMLHttpRequest
jQuery has $.ajax() method
A is for asynchronous
jax is for JS and  XML
Today most servers return JSON which is a subset representation of a JS object in string format
jQuery handles the parsing of JSON into JS for us.

jquery also has convenient methods if you dont care about error handling. 
.get() and .post()