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** Achievements | |
My greatest achievement this module was finally tackling and correctly diagnosing the problems with my React Native app. I feel like I learned so much from the entire process, and I now feel comfortable approaching completely foreign technologies. Diagnosing these errors gave me a chance to re-evaluate the methods I use to attack problems, especially when those problems are poorly documented or obscure. My other achievements include giving a lightning talk on Amazon Web Services, learning JavaScript and React, and successfully connecting myself and others with fellow aspiring pythonistas. When problems were presented, I consistently tackled the more difficult ones, and I am not afraid to pave the way for others by researching and trying new ideas. | |
** New Interests | |
I discovered this inning that I was actually very happy working with front end frameworks, and wouldn't mind taking a job described as Front-End or Full Stack. As well, there seems to be a lot of new ground to be covered in the realm of mobile development, and certain technologies that would do well with a greater motocom of accessibility. Seeing as mobile development is one step closer to working with integrated systems, which would be a field I would be happy to work in, I would certainly go after jobs in this field. | |
** Lessons | |
Turing has completely changed my perspective on reality and fundementally augmented the way I attack problems of any nature. While it is hard to isolate any one skill that I have developed, I would describe my transformation as 'learning to embody your work'. To elaborate, I feel as though I was never truly able to adequately represent a project, and idea that needed to be shared, or an entity other than myself. Turing has taught me how to be that representative, that source of truth, trustworthy, communicable, and reliable. | |
** 30 Day Action Plan | |
- Link to Schedule: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=530cjmlmaltk23tl2hhukqobhg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FDenver | |
- Goal to sign an offer: April 4th | |
- Major Milestones: | |
- Daily: at least 4 hours are spent actively searching for jobs, gaining intel, or networking | |
+ 2 hours looking at postings | |
+ 2 hours putting in AM email queue | |
- March 3rd: Biome mapper open source contributions are complete, it's an awesome codebase | |
- March 5th: All BattleBuddy features operational and tested | |
- March 7th: List of jobs and action plan compiled for job prospects in San Diego, some emails sent | |
- March 8th: Simple ActiveMailer applicatioon built to send emails in the morning | |
- March 16th: Mobile app "Ping Timer" is built for Lisa Tansey (mentor), deployed to app store | |
- March 16th: Team is gathered for Greenhouse AI | |
- March 23rd: BattleBuddy is deployed live to IOS and Android | |
- April 5th: DataFiend V3 is operational and profitable (greater than e^x continuous interest rate) | |
- Aprils 5th: Job is secured | |
- Areas of research and development: | |
- Practice using mobile applications | |
- Practice Python, data science libraries, and Tensorflow | |
- Research intricacies of building Greenhouse Management AI with team | |
- Buld another site with wonderful, friendly, forgiving Rails | |
- Hopefully get a chance to put some crunchy algorithms into practice | |
- Events: | |
- Make The Connection Networking Workshop: March 5th | |
- Downtown SD Networking Mix+Mingle: March 14th | |
- Galvanize Statistics 2-night Short-Course for Data Science: March 19th-20th | |
- Let's Talk Python!: March 21st | |
- Interview Prep: | |
- Algorithms: Big red book on alorithms bought and halfway completed (very crunchy) | |
- Interview questions: Big green book on coding interview questions | |
- People to check in with: | |
- Jeff Casimir office hours | |
- Whoever else around campus is available to be annoyed by my interview questions | |
- My mentor Lisa | |
- Barriers | |
- Keeping focus on the job hunt | |
+ Solution: keep to the hourly minimum per day and the schedule put in place | |
- Keeping sane and not dying | |
+ Solution: excercising and eating well |
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