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Define the Relationship

Project: Refactor Tractor - What's Cookin'

Group Member Names: Shauna Myers, Beth Meeker, Sarah Fitzsimons

Project Expectations: Build on top of pre-existing code that you did not write and navigate someone else’s codebase
Make network requests to API endpoints to retrieve and manipulate data
Refactor pre-existing code and use inheritance to DRY up repetitive logic
Ensure your app is following best practices for accessibility

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• What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?

Empathy played a huge role in my life working as a veterinary technician. I spent most of my day empathizing with clients who had brought their animals into the Emergency Service, or with the animals I was taking care of in the ICU. A lot of my coworkers suffered from Compassion Fatigue because we were constantly encountering awful situations. It wasn't uncommon to have a shift where you were crying with clients, or crying in your car at the end of a terrible day. I am hoping that there will be a lot less crying in my career as a software developer. Empathy helped me be a better vet tech, but I think exercising that empathy "muscle" helped me in my personal life as well. I have become a better friend and wife, becoming more aware of how other people are feeling in my life and putting myself in their shoes instead of just thinking about how their issues were affecting me. I've always been a good listener but now I try to actually empathiz

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Mod 0

1. When you've worked towards a goal in the past, what systems or tools have been helpful for you in accomplishing that goal? How could you adapt those same systems/tools to use while at Turing?

Practicing is probably my most successful tool for acheiving goals. Other helpful things I've done before is coming up with a schedule, making to-do lists, and again, just practicing even when I don't feel like it. I have been trying to come up with a new daily schedule that I will use while I'm Turing, which will include what time I get up, when I work on homework, when I look over the next day's lesson, when I will exercise and when I will relax/have down-time. I'm trying to work on adjusting my sleep schedule a little bit so that I can be awake/alert for more of the daytime and less of a night-owl now that mod 0 is over. I've already made some to-do lists for my pre-work. Now I just need to get to practicing, making sure that I do some coding everyday. I am considering doing the #100daysofcode challenge

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Please see attached comment for my Pairin results!

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Session 2 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 55 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 1 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 25 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. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
• here is what I thought...I should probably be googling a lot more than I already am.

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My First Heading

My Second Heading

This is my TO DO List

1. Homework for Mod 0
2. Make some smoothies
3. More homework time

• I wish I hadn't procrastinated this homework time.
• This is an unordered list, I'm actually making it work.
• No really look at me go
• Pizza for dinner

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Session 1 Practice Tasks

The assignments 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 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. Markdown (20 min)

Markdown is the format all of your homework gists are written in.

Using this markdown cheatsheet, create a new gist of your own by clicking the New Gist button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Create a "Beginners Guide to data types" documenting your data types knowledge so far using Markdown.