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Day 1

On a website, what is the purpose of HTML code?

• Describes the structure of pages on a screen by adding code words we want to appear on those pages.

What is the difference between an element and a tag?

• Element: Tells the browser something about the information that sits between tags. It comprises the opening and closing tag and any content that lies between it
• Tags: Are the containers of the element and usually are in pairs (an opening and a closing tag accompanied with a forward slash to indidicate the closing).

Why do we use attributes in HTML elements?

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Gear Up Pre-work - Turing Culture: Developing Empathetic Programmers

• What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
- Empathy has played a important role in my life through the teaching and parenting of both my parents. Both my mom and dad have been career medical professionals working with sick children. My mom is an oncology nurse who gives cancer treatment to young children and my dad is a childrens physical theraphist who helps them recover. From a young age, I have been able to empthasize and understand that I was born healthy and lived my life not taking that for granted. By understanding that not all people are lucky to be able to learn or live a normal life in the same way due to complications with their heath I have been able to view life more emphatehically when dealt with troubling situations.
• How does empathy help you build better software?
- Developing the skill of empathy and applying it in your job as a software engineer can help y

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1. Pick out 3 behaviors that resonate with you in the list and describe why they resonate with you in a reflection (4-6 sentences).

• Use Google Aggressively: The internet is a valuable resource for teaching and learning. Googling and using this tool resonates with me during this prework as I have often found myself needing another view of the what im learning during the last few days. During this time, I have been able to find multiple resources that I know I will be able to use throughout my path as a software engineer. These resources offer a different voice and strategy to learning different facets of what im trying to learn.

• Always use the right tool for the job: I really like this behavior because it is one of the main reasons I was originally intriqued by software engineering. The tools of coding are always changing and improvements in how code is written changes very fast. One tool may be better than the other at doing what you have been tasked for and finding that is the key to success. Acknowled

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What is the attribute for indicate on the label element? Do you always have to use it? Why or why not? -The for attribute defines the use of the attribute and also allows you to wrap it.

What are 5 values for the type attribute of an input element and how do they work?

• text
• password
• reset
• submit
• radio

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Template for DTR Memo
Project: IdeaBox

Group Member Names:
Paul Vangelakos 
Adam Niedzwiecki

Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?
Both of us are hoping to get a better understanding of localstorage and creating functions that are well written.

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  My values to learn new skills and push myself to become a growing professional have brought me to Turing. Over the last couple years I have felt very stagnant in my professional career. Prior to Turing I worked at a logistics company where my day to day was very consistent on a day to day basis it. This lead me to feeling unfulfilled and eager to do something else. 
  
  This is where Turing comes into play. Turing has pushed me to learn at a very rapid pace and change my day to day lifestyle. I have struggled at Turing during the first 2 weeks, where a solid routine was needed from the start. These 2 weeks were difficult and a gut check in making sure I was practicing a solid study and personal life schedule. I succeeded in creating a healthy schedule during the last 4 weeks of this module.
  
  I see myself completing Turing and becoming a sucessful software engineer because of the obstacles I will overcome over the next 5 months. I also see my fit in the tech industry as being one that is an asset to a t

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Professional Story Draft

I've spent the last couple of years of my professional career in logistics and operations. My last job was a role as the operations manager for a tech startup. This role involved managing a team of individuals and our physical warehouse space. During that time, I found myself drawn to the project side of the job, which involved working cross functionally with our engineering team. During this cross functional work, I was introduced to how software development not only played a role in my job but my normal day to day.

After the company I worked for shut down in April of 2018 I decided to look more into what I had learned from that time with software developers. After some research I realized software development shared many of my same values. One of the main values is perpetual learning. As a software engineer, technology is always evolving and you must continue to learn to stay up to date on the latest languages and processes. I pride myself on continously learning new thing

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Template for DTR Memo

Project: Jeopardy

Group Member Names: Paul and Eric

Project Expectations: What does each group member hope to get out of this project?

Paul - Hoping to get a better understanding of array prototypes and object oriented programming. Especially using the word keyword 'this'.

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FeedBack

CodeBase

• The code is easy to understand in it's current state and follows styling guides
• Possible redudant code in the daily class with the checkMinimum method and checkWageValidity method are written. Can these methods be combied into one method?
• Should dailyDouble be it's own class or file?
• No need to pass in score in the player class constructor because it is explicity set to zero as a default at start.
• Some confusion with the createRound function and where it is being invoked. Is this intentional? It looks like it gets called on page load. Does this happen before the creation of the player names?

README

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Why you want to connect with this person and what you hope to talk about

• I would like to meet Austin Wood from the mentor list. Austin currently lives in San Francisco, which is a location I would potentially like to live and work having lived in the area in recent years. Austin is also a turing Alumni who went from the backend program to being a full-stack engineer focusing almost all on front-end Javascript in recent years.

When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet

• I have recently reached out to Austin in recent weeks and have been meeting with him via video chat. I plan to meet Austin in person over the christmas break for coffee while I am visiting family and friends in the Bay area.

What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them

• Once we have met, I plan to continue meeting with Austin via video chat on a weekly basis. I plan to continue to foster this mentorship and ask questions regarding how he obtained his first gig as I go through the program. I hope the