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)
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Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
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Learning a new language requires hard work- rote memorization and mundane repetition play a key role in reaching fluency.
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Generally, fluency needs to be reached before true understanding can take place.
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Creativity and innovation flow from understanding. It is rare to have a vision to solve a problem without having a full understanding of both the problem and the tools to solve the problem.
2. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Florian (15 min)
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Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
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Use quotation marks around phrases if you want to search for that specific word sequence in order.
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Don't rely on just one source of information. Obviously, some sites are better than others, but there is safety in evaluating multiple sites.
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Check the date. Programming languages evolve, so some older information could be irrelevant to current questions.
3. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)
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Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
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Google is an invaluable research tool, but is not a copy-and-paste mindless cache of answers.
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Programmers should not work in self-confident isolation, but should question their own methods and use google to improve and compare code.
4. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)
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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
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Tip 2: Use quotes around a phrase if you are searching for the entire phrase as a whole in the proper order (ex: "If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman")
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Tip 3: Use a hyphen to exclude a specific word from a search; this is useful if a certain searched word has another common context that you are wanting to avoid (ex: kryptonite -lock)
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Tip 4: Use a colon with the format site:_______ after your search words to limit the search results to that specific site (ex: 3 doors down site:rollingstone.com)
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Tip 9: Use the word OR in between search words/phrases to search for multiple possibilities at the same time (ex: 3 doors down guitarist OR matt roberts)
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Tip 13: Using professional language as opposed to common ways of speaking can improve search results (ex: buy 3 doors down albums -instead of- i want to get a 3 doors down cd)
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Tip 14: Limit your searches to key words (ex: 3 doors down album list -instead of- what are the names of all the albums that 3 doors down has released)
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Tip 17: Use descriptive words- you might need to rephrase your query with alternate words to get the results you want (ex: popular rock bands of the 2000s -instead of- best rock bands)
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
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