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How has this course changed your outlook on learning? What’s changed? Why?

Normal learning is listening to a professor say a bunch of words you probably aren’t really paying attention to at the time and then having to come in on your own time and ask questions about the course. This course helped me because I can learn at my own pace and don’t have to listen to the lecture all at once. I can listen and watch certain chunks of information and then process it to the best of my ability and then use scheduled class time to ask more thought about questions.

When frustration comes up how to you deal with it? What’s your course of action?

When I get frustrated, I usually get very down on myself and kind of just shut down. It really takes someone else other than myself to say that it’s not the end of the world. It takes another individual telling me that I am so close to figuring it out and that if I approached it from another angle for like 2 minutes, I would have figured it out.

Why should we teach to the whole person rather than to just a skill set? What benefits are there to this method?

I think it helps the person remember better than just teaching them what they are already good at. Teach them more on what they are struggling with and help them ask questions and give some answers rather than just telling them to search it up.

How do you fell about your upcoming project? What do you anticipate while working with a classmate?

I feel completely nervous. I have all the knowledge needed, but I still get stuck on things and JavaScript is still a total foreign language to me. I know repetition is key, but I am in a very busy and stressful time in my life right now and I don’t have the luxury to spend hours at a time at this point to simply work on code. Past experience tells me that partnering up is a bad idea. I have always done better on my own rather than pitching ideas and having half of the responsibility handed to someone else, but I’m pretty sure it will go fine.

What benefits will there be to working with someone else?

You have another set of eyes looking at your work. That way if there is something you missed or you are just stuck at one section of your work, there will be another person there to help fix your bugs.

What challenges could come with this partnership?

The biggest thing would probably be the disagreeing of the best way to handle a project. There will always be a difference of opinion between two individuals on what is the best way to go about setting up the page, writing the code, or even debugging the code.