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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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Beginner's Guide to Git

Git is a Version Control System, or VCS, that allows your to work efficiently on your own projects and collaborate effectively with others.

With Git, you can

• Make sure that only the work you want gets added to the final project
• Check to make sure that you aren't missing any work during staging, before the work is committed
• Catch bugs before the hit production

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Start a campfire

1. Gather wood
  1.1 Gather big logs
    1.1.1 Chop big logs into smaller ones if necessary
  1.2 Gather small logs
  1.3 Gather brush for kindling
2. Prepare fire site
  2.1 Find a suitable spot
    2.1.1 See if it's dry but not TOO dry

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Class: Vehicle

Attributes:

Color: (String)
Does it fly: (boolean)
MaxSpeed: (Integer)
CurrentSpeed: (Integer)
FuelTankCapacity: (Integer)
CurrentFuelLevel: (Integer)

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Object: The first ever Blackhawk helicopter

Attributes: 

Color: ["black"]
Does it fly: true
MaxSpeed: 183
CurrentSpeed: 0
FuelTankCapacity: 300
CurrentFuelLevel: 150

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1. Hi

• 1.1 Hi again -- 1.2 hello

1. Hi

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Codepen: https://codepen.io/spaceplesiosaur/pen/VoaKVr

Day 1 questions:

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

HTML code describes the way that a page is visually structured. For instance, it tells you what words are in header format, what information is given as a list, where paragraph breaks are, etc.

2. What is the difference between an element and a tag?

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Career Development Questions

1. What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

I think my greatest stregnth is probably my imagination - it allows me to fill in the blanks in areas where I don't do as well, it helps me create stories about concepts so that I can remember them, and it gives me insight into things I am trying to understand.

2. How do you work best?

I work best when I have a very specific project that's part of a larger group project. I need a defined role and specific expectations. I also work best in an office, with driven, motivated people.

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Gear up questions:

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

I think it helps me connect with people, and to be invested in their stories. It allows me to instinctively guess the best ways to help them, and trust that they'll be there for me.

2. How does empathy help you build better software?

Software is ultimately by humans, for humans, and is usually created to solve a problem. If you can step into the shoes of the people who will be using your software, understand how best to solve their problem, you will make a better tool.

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Template for DTR Memo

Group Member Names: John, Allie

What feedback did you get on Dog Party today? What was your biggest takeaway?

Allie: Clean up your code! And don't go to a new iteration until you're done with the first.

John: Don't overdue media queries