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Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

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):
• The interconnectedness of language. I also appreciate the mix of logic and improvisation (that is one of the reasons that I really enjoyed coding when I started to learn the basics)

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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)

Need help? You can go back to 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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Beginner's Guide to Git

To start off, Git is a Version Control System. Think of this like Google Documents, where you can go back to previous versions of something whenever you want to (However, Git is more complicated than that). Another great thing about Git is that you can work collaboratively on it. Let's move on to some of the commands that you can use in Git:

There are two types of commands in Git, which are

• Action commands
• Safe Commands.

Action Commands:

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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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Scenario: Walking a Dog

1. Get Dog Ready  
  1.1 Call Dog
    1.1.1 Locate Dog
    1.1.2 Use Command
  1.2 Put on Harness
    1.2.1 Grab Harness
    1.2.2 Have Dog Sit
    1.2.3 Latch Harness On

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Class: Book

Attributes:
Title (String)
Number_Of_Pages (Integer)
Author (String)
Color (String)
Genre (String)
Number_Of_Chapters (Integer)
Fiction_Or_NonFiction (Boolean)

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Object: The Book Thief

Attributes:
Title: "The Book Thief"
Number_Of_Pages: 525
Author: "Mark Zusak"
Cover_Color: "Brown"
Genre: "Historical Fiction"
Number_Of_Chapters: 60
Fiction: True