Session 2 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 60 minutes.

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1. Learning Fluency by Turing alum Sara Simon (30 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):

• Learning a new language is hard work, good learning can be applied across many different aspects of life -Becoming an expert in a subject matter comes from exposure and practice, immersion in your knowledge base -Being fluent and able to create and innovate can only come from deep true understanding of something. Discipline before imagination.

• Implementation: Use flashcards, daily practice, immersion in the study to build my foundation for success in code.

2. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Coding in Flow (15 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3): -When searching for a dynamic topic filter by time span to the last year, less or more for most current results
• Use control + F in actual search results to find your specific interest -Using quotes and combinations of quotes can be very useful -Eliminate unwanted search results with (-) --> take out key words you don't want results for -Image search can be useful when you don't know the name of what you're looking for, to get visual of what you want

3. 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):
• Googling is part of the coding tool set and is an essential part of writing well researched up to date code -On the job you will be able to code in things you don't yet know utilizing searches and google

4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)

• Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
• Tip 2: Use quotations for getting matches to exact phrases
• Tip 3: Hyphen can be used to exclude unwanted search parameters
• Tip 4: For results in a specific site, search terms site:examplesite.com
• Tip 9: Combination search terms, if you want more than one thing, search "example1" OR "example2"
• Tip 13: Tailor your input to what expected results would be, phrase for answer you would want
• Tip 14: Use important words only - get results for what you want and leave out superfluous info
• Tip 17: When you don't get the results you want, adjust/reword/rephrase search in increments to further specify what you want

5. Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

1. N/A