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):
• There are going to be many times where people say you are bad at something, or you fail at learning something, but that is just a mindset that limit ourselves to become better. Sometimes the people who will not believe in us will be our biggest motivators to prove them wrong.
• Memorization is not good for learning and feeding creativity, we need to understand in order to be able to master.
• Discipline (& consistency) is very important to develop fluency in the long-term.

2. How to Use Google to Solve Your Programming Questions by Florian (15 min)

• Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 3):
• Quotation marks are very important to search for exact specific terms/sentences.
• Instead of doing text searches, we can also take a screenshot and do an Image Search using Google Images.
• If our search is a bit broad or vague, we can use (-) in front of thw words in order to exclude those kyewords from our search, could be handy at times depending on the case.

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):
• Using Google doesn't mean that you are a bad programmer, in fact, seasoned programmers use it more than beginners.
• A good programmer doesn't mean that we have to know every single little detail, but is more important to know when to use it. “Never memorize something that you can look up.”

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 quotation marks when you are looking for exact content. Example: "encountered error 3352643"
• Tip 3: When your search is too broad you can use the minus sign to exclude words from your search. Ex: Windows -computer
• Tip 4: Use "site:example" to look for results in an specific website. Ex: Digital site:medium.com
• Tip 9: Use "OR" to separate and search for multiple keywords/searches. Ex: blue cars OR red cars
• Tip 13: Find different ways to say something. Ex: "I am looking to buy a car" could be replaced by "We sell cars"
• Tip 14: Always use important keywords intead of full sentences to target better results. Ex: News Mac 2019 features
• Tip 17: Use descriptive words to find more suitable results. Ex: "how to fix xyz" "how to fix xyz software in Mac"

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. The Lulu Li article is down.