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Ken Lee's Turing School Prework

Task A- Practice Typing:

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Task B- Algorithmic Thinking & Logic:

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Task C- Create your Gist: Done

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    What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
    Empathy plays a roll in my everyday life by helping me understanding people's motivations. For instance, I when 
    have an interaction with someone who is acting out, I say the phrase "Oh, they must be having a bad day".
    This phrase instantly helps me understand that person's state of mind. It reminds me of being in a like place 
    and helps me not to react in fold but to stay calm and present. 
    
    How does empathy help you build better software?
    Building software for others to use takes an understanding of different prospectives. A view from somewhere other then my own.
    Empathy helps in software development because it let's you see how else you can build something. You change your perspective

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The article had me thinking about how Turing has the same philosophy of inclusion. Though I do remember our first 
day and the female graduates was still low. My own experience as a male in the industry, I've only seen three white women in 
development roles. I have heard the males in the industry talk about wanting to include or at least have the idea of being more
inclusive but I also hear them say that there are not enough females with the right experience. To which I always think "there's
part of the problem.

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I feel like the article is missing something. It felt like all it really was was a complaining bullet point article and then
at the end a quick blurp about going out to states where there are the have's and the have nots. I agree that Silicon Valley
has an empathy vacuum because I see it here in the Denver tech industry. It seems like the have's feel like they are doing
something by posting on soicial networks and talking about how things are unfair for some. But that's all there is. Just posting
and talking. No real action that would make a difference. It's like donating to NPR and thinking your helping society and your
community or protesting in a "blue" street for a few days wearing sweats. Actions need to be freqent and concrete to be truely
effective. By that I mean, getting involved in politics at a local and federal level. Hitting the pavement and getting your hands
more then dirty. Getting them all scuffed and cut. So when you go home at night you feel the work it takes. I don't know how
realistic it 

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card_number = "4929735477250543"
reverse_num = card_number.reverse
split_arr = reverse_num.split("")
arr_numbers = split_arr.map(&:to_i)

odd_positions = arr_numbers.select.each_with_index { |_, i| i.odd? }
even_positions = arr_numbers.select.each_with_index { |_, i| i.even? }

double_digits = even_positions.map { |double| double*2 }

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This article reminds me of advertising company and tech startups I've interviewed and worked at in the past. The shininess of
what these company offer is hard to resist. Free food, team outtings, beer... All these things were just there to cover up the
pressures of making monies. The companies hired young people who didn't have any other obligations then work. So long hours and
high stress were the norm. I had one employer who put in their "Culture Book" that any less then 10 hours at work was consisted
not being in 100%. "You need to pay your dues." I think this shift in culture focused companies stems from wanting to rebel 
agaist the old "corporate" ways of doing business. But in reality it was just the same thing with free food. 

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I was really happy to read this article. To have someone who is a teacher look at a problem from the other prespective. To not
judge a "cheater" but to look at why someone would cheat. What was the reason for cheating. The failings in the process if you
will. This article kept me thinking about the TED talk regarding the sharp stick and carrot approach to learning. I think the
pressures of grades or due dates are just like that. Students can loose tough of learning if they only see the end result as
being good or bad. I like how Mr. Murray's way of teach by having students solve problems by changing them. Giving them broken
problems and having fix them. Also, I like the idea of having the students grade the teacher. These are mind blowing ideas that
really click with me. I'm a struggling to stay a float now and there are times (many of them) where I think I don't belong here,
that I'm not smart enough for this, but I have to catch myself and think "I can't do anything with this feeling...but what can
I do. I 

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Floats and Integers

What’s the difference between a float and integer? Floats have decimal places and Integers are whole numbers
Float example 1.55
Integer example 1

What’s are the similarities and differences between BigNum and FixNum?
They are whole numbers and they are within the same level

What will 4.0 / 2 return?

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Week 2 and 3 Diagnostic

This exercise is intended to help you assess your progress with the concepts and techniques we’ve covered during the week.

For these questions, write a short snippet of code that meets the requirement. In cases where the question mentions a “given” data value, use the variable given to refer to it (instead of re-writing the information).

Use single (`) and triple backticks (```) to container code snippets.

Define a class called PizzaOven which has a method cook_pizza which returns the string "mmm 'za".