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I took a Career Quiz on The Princeton Review! Here are my results.

Quiz Results

After you complete The Princeton Review Career Quiz we will show you careers that match the "style" and "interest" colors you created. The colors have particular meanings:

Red: Expediting

Green: Communicating

Blue: Planning

Yellow: Administrating

Your Interest

"Interests" describe the types of activities that you are drawn to; these will need to be present in a job or career that you are considering if you are to stay motivated. It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill.

Yellow

People with yellow interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.

Your Style

"Style" describes the strengths that you could bring to a work environment when you are at your best. This is the way you like to get results. A work environment in which your strengths are appreciated is a big part of career satisfaction.

Blue

People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.

A tip I wish I knew that saved me so much digging after I found it on StackOverflow.

It’s so simple that I feel so dumb. When overriding bootstrap’s styling, put your link tag of your own stylesheet after bootstraps link tag. Also, use inspector on your browser, so you can see how specific that one style is/steal its selectors and override it in your own sheet! Thank you, Bryan!

link to forum: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26133742/css-bootstrap-overrides-my-own-css

#webdev #webdevelopment #bootstrap #html #css #tip

Monday December 17, 2018

Learning about specificity and different types of selectors. Still at the bottom, but still quite fun! With the understanding of specificity and inheritance, I'm doing an exercise using selectors while only editing the CSS document. I can't stress enough how much I like the teaching style of Colt Steele.

#webdev #studyblr #web development #candle #notes #mason jar #css #html #yesihavetapeovermycameraplsdontjudgehahaha

Started another Udemy course with Colt Steele! I just really like how he teaches okay? Can you tell if I like Sand + Fog candles?

#webdevelopmentbootcamp #udemy #web development #webdev #candle #studyblr

CodeNewbie Podcast S1 Ep 6

So they’re people who are being interviewed here had an engineering background and a computer science background.

One had an internship possibly a greater advantage. She said that the curiosity/passion for code is something that one can leverage for advantage to get a job. You can ask for many internships through bootcamp, working part time, you can explore remote opportunities.

her education was very theoretical. she doesn’t use much of the theory day to day. What she does: think about problems and how to break them down into digestable chunks, helps explain things to people, scoping out projects, understanding timelines?

actual hands to keyboard stuff she learned on the job!

interview process: trying to get to know you and how you think with questions about your life: maybe see if you’re ready to learn or have problem solving skills. Not only technical questions. But with the technical questions, if there is something you don’t know, try and ask if it is similar to something else if you can. Maybe they’ll let you write it in that or they’re actually tell you about it. The, “I don’t know it, but please inform me. i would love to learn about it!“ If they like you, you will get a test or homework. If you do well on this, you will be asked in again and possibly be shown around or have another interview/talk with people in other departments where that position would regularly interact with. They might see how you react with them.

they do not care about your memorization of a method. just ask if you don’t remember. If you do just guess. “I’m pretty sure how to tackle this problem, you use _____.”

Many people fail interviews. it’s a learning experience, and it happens! With each interview, you will learn. It’s no worry. Think about it as dating. They just weren’t right for you and that is okay.

when you are given a problem, don’t start coding yet. Evaluate the problem first and decide from different ways how you’re going to attack it. Create a pseudo code first hehe.

if you need time to think, spend approx. 5 minutes to find bugs. Definitely, let the interview know what you’re thinking. How are you going to attack this bug! It’s alright if you are debugging. It gives them a chance to see your debugging process: if it is logical or efficient or your method towards it. Spit and refine :) BLOCK OF MARBLE AND CHISEL!!! :D

DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Concept of persona. What image to you want to leave in the interviewer’s mind? Every answer - hint to the interviewer of whooo you are! You want to stick out well. everyone knows you’re passionate and hardworking. It is general.

Triggers

1. used for logging history (using after a delete!) 2. (not the best there is a better way to do this) security (if under 18, don’t let person add information into form) 3. check if something already exists in the database. it is better to use unique as a constraint when creating the table, but this is another way of doing it

example used: making sure people don’t follow themselves. this is another way of using it, but there’s better ways of doing this task. This is when you’re strictly dealing with sql. -> They had an extension like this for tumblr. See who unfollowed you so you can unfollow them lol

*** triggers may make debugging really hard. Once it is organized, triggers would most likely be the last thing to be added? Sometimes triggers can be chained together. Most likely try your best not to use them. Too many triggers is a problem. use caution!

#triggers #sql #udemy #notes

Five Basic Pillars of Learning Programming

1. TDD (Test Driven Development). Example: Unit Testing. Do not write tests. Learn how to use and work with tests. Without tests, it should look/feel unusual.

2. Fundamentals, foundations, and basic elements of programming: methods/functions, conditions, variables and loops.

3. Libraries and frameworks: most code already exists in these. Remember that this is like a tool. Use well known libraries. Professionals know which libraries and frameworks to use. They don’t spend their time coding something when it already exists. When you know the concepts, and you’ve build some before, explore and use libraries! They are important and they save time.

4. Master and apprentice. You might learn more in one week that you did those 2 years you’ve been self-studying. A master can let you know/fix some bad habits that you’ve developed along the way. Many success stories though but she questions the efficacy of it. Maybe it’s best to have a master.

5. Challenge and motivation. Needs to know what it means to be a professional developer. Need intrinsic motivation. Surprisingly, programmers write less code than we think because fixing is problematic.

Don’t move on too fast and understand the concepts as much as you can.

#podcast #coding

Skillcrush Bootcamp

Day 1: The Internet vs The Web

“The internet is a system of interconnected computer networks that all use the same rules (protocols) to talk to one another.” (I couldn’t have said it better, so this is a quote from skillcrush). The World Wide Web or the web is a sharing application that helps you communicate with other computers connected within the network or ‘the internet.’ Basically, text that you can access through the internet with it (web browser). There are different kinds of networks, like you local network at work/school/home (different privacies), and public networks.As there are different networks, there are different types of web applications: chrome (i likey), mozilla, internet explorer, safari etc...

Day 2: Websites vs. Web Applications

Websites most of the time are static, use HTML/CSS and some Javascript and rarely have databases. They are not updated too much. Web applications on the other hand are dynamic, use the same languages as websites, but also have dynamic languages like PHP, Ruby, Python and frameworks like Rails, Django etc. They have databases and are updated frequently. The information on these web applications change constantly. If you’re wanting to make a website or web application, you first need to know if it needs to be updated frequently. This well help determine what you will be creating.

Q&A with a developer who learned from Skillcrush. She hit the ground running with the paid bootcamp. Also, her friend asked her to make a website for his golfing business, so in actuality she had a side project of her own (I realize now that many people who did bootcamps or are self taught, they did their own projects. My dad told me to do this, but I need to brainstorm more on what I could actually have a little project on. I know that it can be anything, but anything is so vast).

Day 3: HTML Part 1

When we visit a webpage, we see images and text. HTML (hyper text markup language) are “tags” that arrange the content on the webpage/make it what we see on the existing webpage. HTML tags that are examples in the video are like <h1></h1> (Headers 1-6), <p></p> (paragraphs). Within these tags are the text that we see on the webpage. The tags help to state where you will see the text, like the header will be at the top portion stating what a header should be: what the page is about. The paragraph will state a block of text.

Tim Berners-Lee was the creator of the HTML language. He actually worked in a lab! His problem was he wanted a way to share his academic papers with his colleagues through the internet because he was quite fascinated with it. (It’s crazy! He is still alive at 63! This is surprising to me because I studied chemistry. Most of the people who have invented/discovered what I’ve learned in the courses I took, are actually not living lol). Before he created the language, it was quite complicated to share files. He not only created HTML but also URI (known as URL)/Uniform Resource Identifier and HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol). People were able to access this text written in HTML/webpage via HTTP leading to the first web browser (he created an application).

Currently on HTML5. When he created this first webpage, it wasn’t as fancy as they are today. It was quite simple yet it was able to do its function, which was teach his colleagues how to utilize what he just created as well as share his academic papers.

Day 4: HTML Part 2

Tags explain what each piece of content is. HTML is just for content on your site! Not for how it looks! You can actually view the code of a website/webpage by ‘View Page Source.’ It might be all jumbled up and extremely hard to read especially for beginners like me! On google chrome, you can actually debug by going to view -> developer -> developer tools. Wow!

Day 5: Making it Pretty & Interactive

HTML shows you where things should be while CSS states how it looks like: font/color/size/borders etc. They are saved as .css files. With learning html&css you can create websites for money, debugging existing websites etc. that’s quite interesting. They challenged me to look at the old .css code for their old website, and try and find what font they are using/poke around.

I noticed that fonts that she created herself were at the top/it described what it was. These are customized fonts. Next came the global style fonts like helvetica, arial and gotham/georgia, serif etc. When personalized fonts were used, they were within single quotation marks. Main one used was montserrat. Not sure where it came from.

Javascript: programming language used when things on a page change without the user physically clicking a link, like adorable slide shows, kinda annoying alerts that randomly pop up when you do something for an ad website or maybe someone clicked something wrong and they need to be notified of something, animations!

Day 6: Visual Design, UX, and UI

So many different types of design. People group these together sometimes, but each one has its own function in a part of designing.

visual(web/graphic/identity): communicate a unified, consistent visual message to a target audience.

web(UX, user interface): what it is like to browse around a website -> all of those aspects.

UX: research/planning/testing/design solutions/putting all together, but UI mainly does how the website looks

UI: hand in hand with UX how things look on the webpage

graphic design: how it looks!

identity: creating a brand’s identity through logos and icons

digital: interactive media

visual design: combination of all designs/visual communication

main thing is: user’s experience: easy to navigate/aesthetically pleasing/can people find what they’re looking for/purpose of the webpage? prioritization!??!

Laurel: “Stay curious and constantly learn” who wouldn’t want to work with someone who is enthusiastic about learning how to do said job :D?

Day 7: Frontend vs Backend

HTML is the content, CSS makes it pretty, Javascript makes it interactive. These things happen in the browser and makes up the front end.

Back end is everything that happens before it makes it to the browser like databases, servers, applications.

Day 8: Wordpress

The world’s best content management system or cms. It is a complex web application. Ruby on rails is not a cms but it has the tools to build a complex web application like cms. No coding required with wordpress. You have your content and it directly inputs it into a website. It uses not only the ones that we have mentioned earlier, but also PHP. Apparently, so many people use this platform to create their website!

Day 9: Programming Languages

Tell the computer what to do. Computers speak to each other in binary language (zeros and ones). We use a programming language instead :)! There are many different types, but they have the same functions as in telling the computer what to do! Like languages woahhh. Popular languages for the web are PHP, Ruby and Python. They may differ due to efficiency, preference, better for different functions. Punch card programming! it was a thing!

PHP: Hypertext pre-processer: wordpress is written in this language. Multiple PHP files are utilized to retrieve information from a database to your web browser and even send information to the database. IE a PHP tag within HTML coding will use PHP file to retrieve information from the database&send it back (example used was the title of the page).

Ruby was made by Max, Japanese programmer, to make people happy! Less time coding and easy to use hehe. Easier to write code can PHP and Javascript (opinion maybe).

Day 10: How It All Comes Together

Simple, elegant, straight to the point, easy to find content, easy navigation. One website, Everlane, was built using Ruby with MySQL (some websites use more than one database for different functions) database with JQuery library and SCSS library.

There is a lot of work/people’s efforts that go into a website. For the website, they focused on the following things in order mainly product, web and art. There were multiple people working on these three things. Stated that it was difficult process because there were so many people, but with communication, it worked out.

If you do not have technical skills you are ‘expendible’ at least in her situation. It can be true.

#skillcrush

azntoastyz

I’ve realized, every single thing I’ve tried to do in my life=head on...expecting to have natural talent in it. I forget that there was a process

I remember when I was little, I loved to draw. I was creative. I loved to draw anything and everything. People said, “Oh, Crista your drawings so nice! You have a natural talent!” I loved hearing those compliments and it inspired me to keep going besides the fact that I loved it. I would win competitions (like one for jewel and I got a huge ass chocolate bunny and a hair dryer which according to my disappointed face, I got to choose a beanie baby instead. What 8 year old uses a hair dryer back then at least? Also, the time when my best friend and I at the time got to ride the fire truck home!). Natural talent. Never really had to keep going at it. Not sure why I stopped. I remember I would re-draw mangas and photos for fun. It would take days for one face.

Once third grade hit, I tried gymnastics and jazz dance. Omg. jazz dance was so fun. Not the best at gymnastics, but I got better at it. I still can do a cartwheel and a handstand and a little tumble without hurting my head and a round off, but definitely will hurt my inner thighs because they haven’t been stretched to that limit in a loooong time. Anyway, I didn’t have a natural talent for these things. Especially, gymnastics. I couldn’t do the bridge and flip over backwards. or a hand stand fall backwards into a bridge. I was scared of getting hurt. I couldn’t understand how one could easily do cartwheels on the balance beam. I couldn’t get my second foot down properly. I was afraid of falling. I couldn’t understand how people got on the bars. I had no strength.

A year later, I stopped both. I decided to go into cheerleading because I liked it, but my friends didn’t. It was fun, but I wanted to be with my friends. I started volleyball at that time too. I loved it. I was good for my age. I started basketball because my friends did it. Didn’t love it but hey my friends were doing it. Didn’t really care for it. I tried cross country. I thought, “I play do some sports. I’m pretty sure i’ll be decent at this.” I fucking sucked and stopped. I hated running. At least I tried it, but my mindset was stupid at the time.

I decided to do a volleyball camp because I liked it so much. I had the vision of going in as “my friends and coach think I’m really good. Maybe I’ll have the same appreciation!” wrong. There were people better than me. The coach didn’t like me as much as my school’s coach. It was discouraging. I stopped doing the camp there. I still played for my school though. It was really fun. Sadly, I didn’t do it out of school. I was a little on the chubby side and not that outgoing on first meeting.

High school hit. I played basketball and volleyball for my first year. Loved it. I tried out track to stay fit/ just to try it. I know I hated running, but maybe if I see the way these people do maybe I’ll like it? No. Terrified of practice and terrified of meets. My coach though saw potential in me. He really thought I could be a good sprinter or hurdler. I have long ass legs for my height apparently or maybe it’s just because idk what his reasoning was. I just didn’t have the passion in it.

I haven’t really done art for a long ass time. Sometime in 8th grade and going into high school, I was fucking obsessed with photoshop. I would color in mangas and shit and play with highlighting and i loved to color manga pages if that makes sense I can’t really think of it yanno? I took a photoshop class and totally went in thinking “I do this at home. I’ll do great in this class and it’ll be my burner class.” It was. I wasn’t as creative as I could’ve been. I feel bad for my teacher because I would do homework instead of playing with photoshop because I had it at home. Then the next year, I came in thinking, “I was a great artist when I was a kid. Maybe I can skip 2 levels of art classes to catch up with my art friends.” She suggested only 1 level skip. I didn’t take it. I wanted to be with my friends.

I took piano lessons as a kid. 1-6th. I took it again for about a year thinking I could already be advanced. I was in the upper intermediate classes. It was really fun. I loved going to my teacher and playing the grand piano for fun. Omg the acoustics in her studio were to DIE FOR. I decided to pick up singing lessons since I had a knack for sounds. I was okay. I came into it thinking, “I have a natural talent. Maybe this could be it.” I needed tweaking. My breathing, pronounciation and vibrato. Needed more of all of those. I never practiced. I was too afraid. Also at this time, I learned how to play guitar in school. I decided, “omg. I did piano this will be easy.” it was an easy class. I learned how to play the guitar, and that’s something I advanced in. I don’t compose my own riffs or like sounds, but I can look at simple notes and play them and remember the chords and do bar chord versions of those chords. I don’t regret taking that class, but definitely my dumb ass attitude.

I tried to pick it up art later maybe last year, and digit art. Never stuck with it. That’s my problem. I’m an ass thinking, “I have some experience in this. I think I’ll have a natural talent for it without practicing. It will come naturally. No need to put too much effort into it. Someone will just teach me. I like to learn but I don’t like to practice. I don’t like to put extra time in.”

See this pattern? I don’t want to keep thinking this way.

CSS Moar!

Padding: the space around the information/text. Margin: the space around the padding so like padding for padding!

when you have the following property display: inline-block; it will put it on the same line as the html tag before it. This can be tricky due to float issues.

When making columns or rows, you would like to have the width or height go with the varying size of the screen, it’s best if you do the value in % rather than px (for margin and width or padding if it exists).

footers are nice little things that go at the bottom of the page!

nav tags help the compiler know where your navigation is!

#css #video2 #video3

Playing around with HTML

All html files have the following format

sometimes theres a <nav></nav> stuck somewhere to indicate the “navigation” links.

the interactive part is within the body. Scripts are mainly at the bottom of the body so that they load after everything else loads as in scripts don’t have to load before the content does.

strong is bold and italics is em. Technically, they still can be “b” and “i,” but it was switched up because maybe they became reserved words?

<div> and <span> are for styling. To add CSS directly to the html file, you put the following within the head. just add onto the sectors and etc.

To like the file as well, you do the following within the head tag (where people don’t see the content!). It’s better to link it within the file rather than have the style code written within that same file to keep it neater. if it is not within the same folder, you have to state where it is located so it’s best to keep it all within the same folder!

For css, there are sectors that have curly brackets. within those curly brackets are properties: value; and there can be multiple ones of those, but there are SO MANY PROPERTIES. The sectors can be types of HTML tags or they can be classes or ids

Classes are a subdivision/name given to multiple HTML tags, so you can reduce the amount of code written. In CSS they are labeled like “.sector”

Id’s are more specific than classes. They are used rarely and only for special cases. In CSS they are labeled like “#sector”

you can have multiple classes to properties.

you can also define different things within a class to or HTML tag to have that property

The following css describes all in the header

The following describes the h1 tag within the header, but not the un-ordered list.

here’s another example but with the nav tag

As you can see, the first sector describes the unordered list section as a whole. the next one describes the content within the unordered lists. The last one describes the link part. So it’s kind of like an onion. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets for a reason. You can see all the layers! Also, as you get deeper into the layers of onions/description the higher the precedence is for that one above it’s less specific layer!

#css #video1

Just begin. If your journey becomes difficult, don't despair. It means you're on the right path. The hard one.

Roger Collier

It’s not for coding, but learning anything in general. Ever since I can remember, I would complain about a problem. Then, fix it and be proud of it. That energy of complaining and getting mad, I can use it towards fixing it. It’s okay if it is hard because it’s supposed to be.

#coding #freecodecamp podcast

“Worrying about your geek cred will kill you.”

Why are you learning to code? Honestly, there are many reasons. I’m bored. I stopped thinking about now and started to think long term. I believe that if I start over into this field, I’ll be content. I want to solve problems. I enjoy finding problems at my current job because I actually feel like I’m doing something other than mindless testing and data entry/checking documents. I want to help people/the world, which is my end goal, but I know that it won’t always be that way. I want that culture. I want to escape.

Most people care about what you made/not what you used to make it/how.

Yes, it feels good when I learn something. It’s fun to learn things. Let go your aesthetic/how well you fit in to geek subcultures. Let go on how smart people will think you are if you’re studying computer science or a language. You’ll never quite fit in because you’re unique/you’re you. Use that energy to build something/solve a problem/think of ideas/debugging things that other have written.

You don’t know what you don’t know. The only way to get past it is to persevere. Be curious. Explore.

“Building with bricks; you will eventually have a wall.”

“Gatekeeping (thinking that having people who don’t have a bachelors degree in CS or related field will become obsolete because the job is not just limited to those with that type of degree/they are not worthy enough). That is wrong.” Lots of people have opinions: what language is better than the other/if your main language is that, you don’t know how to code. You should code in this format etc etc. Whatever works.

- Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code” by FreeCodeCamp

#thoughts #summary #quotes #podcast #tech #cs #software

Customer Service Skills

I thought I had them. I’ve worked in retail for less than a year, but dealing with customers constantly does gain experience with what you’re selling and the communication skills with customers. I currently do it at my job. I’ve been working ~ 2 years on Halloween. It’s easier with content that I do know. It goes smoothly. Most of the time, this is the case. It makes me confident. Today, I’ve had a few flaws. Customer 101. If it’s not clear on what the customer wants, I ask them to clarify. I know this is the case through e-mail. Another case: if you do not know it, let them know that you can contact them in a bit or ask them to hold for a few so that you can research a little bit. It is okay if they wait. I’ve been so used to working internally that I forget these things when on a phone call. I freeze up when I don’t know the answer. I forget to ask them to clarify. It has happened before. This is what I need to work on.

Another thing I need to work on: even though I love helping out people because it helps me learn about their job/learning something new is great right (I’ve learned so much about this business, maybe still scratched the surface, but still more than I would’ve)? Sometimes they take advantage of that and they don’t fully process what they are asking me even though they can do it themselves. They’re just handing it to me because they know I can do it. I’m not in customer service. I’m in the technical services department that handles internal things except for when a customer asks for specific documents (tbh they can do that as well). Sometimes the documents aren’t written up, so in that case we would have to take it. My responsibilities are multiple types of testing, keeping records that have to deal with technical information (about our product), obtaining regulation information and translating it in our format, assisting other departments if they do not know where to find it, if something goes wrong: investigation of the problem. . .

Any who, I’m someone who needs to think about my response. my response time isn’t as fast as it used to be. My response will be fast if I know how to respond, but either than that, I need to work on it.

Also, something I need to work on: standing up for myself. I don’t mean that fact where I suggest ideas (countering someone else’s/having a debate). I mean cutting the cord with people: stop helping them when I know they can do it. I don’t know why I do it. I’ve gotten better. I do better through e-mail where I state that they’re able to do it this way as I’ve mentioned before, but while on the phone, they clearly don’t state their question, they just say, “The customer wants something to do with the CoA please ask them what they want I’m not sure.” They just pass it on without asking their thoughts/evaulation on the customer’s question. I need to do that better.

#qc #quality control #chemistry #customer service #not me lol #technical services

CodeNewbie Podcast S1 Ep 4-5

1. Coding is frustrating. That’s what happens with this job. There’s a lot of problems, so it won’t be solved that easy. You will hit dead ends, and there will be a lot of research done.

2. There are different levels of developers. People with different methods. People who come from different backgrounds. It’s okay!

3. Need to know your skillset and that you’re personable!!! -> for those who do not know how to code either as in the interviewer for freelance

4. How things work together : he said business and technology intertwine. What is your project trying to do? What is the stake holder? What impact does this project have on the business? Tech goals line up with business goals? Ask this a question in an interview. Shows that you can see a part of the larger picture!

5. Although you want to make sure everything is good...Need to be efficient! But it’s okay to be a little slow. No need to rush. It will definitely reflect on your work!

6. Worst advice: play it safe. Do it earlier because having fees later in life it is hard to! My boss has told me this. Even though later in life it may be harder to play it safe, one can still do it!

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7. Even though she had a full background, she was still not as confident as she thought she would be. It’s ok to be humble! As long as you’re going to work with people/take constructional criticism. I’m unsure but please I would like your advice!

8. what a lot of people have done is they cannot do follow by tutorials. It’s not easily obtained as doing your own project with that topic after learning it.

9. React is a Javascript library. For changing and sorting, if speed is an issue with large database. It makes it easier for maintenance. Virtual DOM is concept possibly method. Maybe more details later. I don’t really understand what is going on here but update later.

10. Passion for product in itself. She had a passion of learning. I actually have a passion for learning as well!

11. She had a book to start and decided to read it. Never again and she sold it in college lol!

12. Learn the value of testing! (wish she knew before when she started).

#CodeNewbie #S1

CodeNewbie Podcast S1 Ep 1-3

So I’ve been listening to this while working. Half of the time I’m standing up, so it was quite hard to get some notes down. These are some that I typed on a sticky note on my computer.

1. When interviewing, make sure that you are opinionated or at least see both sides. Evaluate and state why doing one thing over the other

2. People do not just hire one because of their skill set. They also hire due to personality. They’re going to be spending 8+ hours a day with that person. Definitely want someone who they can mesh with. Easier to work with.

3. When interviewing, make sure you know exactly what the interviewer is looking for. Like if they ask you to code on paper, make sure you are using the languages that they are looking for stated on the job description (like coding in sql when they really want python)

4. It’s okay if you do not know the answer or do not know what something is. People who have been interviewing for a long time can tell when you do not know anything. It’s the way you respond. Like “Oh, sorry I do not know what that is, but please tell me about it. I would love to get to know about the topic.”It shows that you're interested in it and willing to learn.

5. This one is contradictory. find a company that suits your needs. I’ve heard on episode 3 i think that she said the worst advice someone gave her was to stick to what she’s good with or find a position that you’re well suited for. She said that she wanted something challenging. She had that thirst to learn.

6. Interviews are supposed to be a two way conversation. Not only are the interviewers trying to see if you’re a perfect fit, but you’re trying to interview seeing if the company is a perfect fit. Ask about the company’s culture. Extra curricular activities? How to people work together? Are there meetings or is it just all out in the open? whats the expectation as you to be?

7. One doesn’t know everything, but the good side of not knowing a skill is that it is new! Have that thirst for learning.

8. Not only technical questions, but really... How’d you came into programming? What is your story? What are you most proud of in your projects if you have some? This ties in with the meshing story

9. There will always be people out there who will look down on self taught programmers. Ep3. She said that people probably state this because those who actually paid the money to learn to get there are having their jobs taken over by people who didn’t take the same path as them. It does strike anxiety to me. What if someone who didn’t take chemistry is working in the lab? It is quite odd, but the thing is that things with computers. It can be learned through the computer. Everyone has access to it. There are so many platforms to learn whereas with chemistry, there’s a shit ton of labs. You don’t want to mix the wrong things together and blow shit up or make toxic gas lol.

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