LegoZombieKing

PART A) Pre-Contemplation: Your thoughts about the given task and its context. These internal thoughts will be displayed in part 1 and describe how you take the task and get the solution, as well as the key practices and things you notice in the task context. You will also include the following: - Any assumptions you make about the task and the context. - Thoughts about how to approach the task - Things to consider about the context of the task that may affect the solution - How to solve the task

PART B) The Solution: the answer to the task.

I’ve been keeping track od my prompt stuff here: https://christianadleta.com/prompts

I just started building it recently. Haven’t even gotten made a way to display all the posts just yet

I probably need to be more diligent in working on the feasible. I think my default is to assume everything must be optimized, and not that everything could just ‘be done’.

Here is a sample one that I use to get out of work mindset: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r65gi7tk4str2h7/After%20Work%20Med...

If I were just following the course material I wouldn’t expect too much from what you can learn from course work.

I have even become slightly addicted to learning everything I can about building software. From reading (3 of Robert C. Martins books, and a few other popular ones from hacker news’ top 100 reads) and taking Udemy courses[0] in my free time.

I also have been working at a small teacher resource website for the past few years, to get some on the job knowledge.

Even then I still don’t feel like I’ve got the best understanding of SQL, networking or concurrency. I spent most of my time learning specific languages and practices and principles like Agile and spec docs. I’m working on building my own web app and have been creating a dev log for it[1], as well as building an arguably crappy personal website[2].

[0] https://www.udemy.com/user/legozombieking/ [1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFBzv7SGgs903uH6Mfm34J94... [2] https://www.cadleta.dev/

Can’t say that what it generated was particularly insightful, however it was helpful to reach an obituary word count.

Not giving anyone ideas or anything, but if you feed it your previous assignments and it learns your writing style it should be hard to detect with minor editing.

I realized that the hardest thing is getting the long term goals to feel like a simple activity for today, bringing the 3+ month goal into a simple “read a few pages today” type of habit.

I also created a simple spreadsheet app that focuses specifically on the progress you made today in relation to your goal. The progress you make today is a different color. Instead of estimating how long it will take to complete the goal with your average, I use the amount done today. So after every addition page read you can see the amount of days left to finish the book go down.

I also added a little bit of motivation text that says “if you read X more pages you will be done Y days faster.

If you use the “MIT”(Most Important Task) type of system , then you could make it a daily habit to complete your top 2-3 MITs for the day.

Is this really a crime against humanity, or is this just an aggressive anti-google writer?

I honestly do not know, which is why I seek more information and opinions from others

I go to UOPeople, which is a tuition free online school and I am getting a 4 year computer science degree (for like $5k which is crazy), anyway of the 40 courses you have to take only 11 are proctored. UOP offers 2 choices for proctoring, A) find a real life proctor, or B) use ProctorU. I don’t have the luxury of finding a real person + with covid its more unlikely, so ProctorU it is.

All in all its not the worst thing in the world, but when I first read the requirements for the ProctorU testing environment and technical requirements I almost quit school completely to look for alternative paths. Some of the crazy requirements include: Testing space must have nothing on the walls, or floors. You can’t wear glasses while taking the exam. Your desk must be clear of everything besides the specific testing materials (calculator if your lucky, and maybe a pencil and paper) Your device needs a webcam, so that they can not only watch you for the entire 1 hour and 30 minutes where you take a test that determines 40% of your grade, but also so that you can show them each wall, floor and under your desk. And thats just the physical space requirements. I had to empty my closet and use my laptop to take this test because their is no way I just have an extra room for testing…

The digital requirements were pretty intense as well, access to folders they had to right too, chrome settings and a whole bunch of wack stuff. I created a dummy account just to take tests.

When you go into the program they have you download it acts like a 1 way mirror, you can hear the proctor(if you are lucky to have a human proctor) and they can watch you, your screen and hear you. I had some tech issues once and I was grateful to have a proctor with a sense of humor who was able to help me through it. I can’t say my privacy is worth a cheaper degree, but I hope that this doesn’t become normalized, because it is not a pleasant experience.