My Personal Code for 4/21/15

I have an interview tomorrow with a coding bootcamp in Woodside. I wanted to run through some practice interview questions, so using the questions I was asked during my first code bootcamp interview (with another school), I wrote a program to feed me questions that I could respond to and then I tried to think of a few points that I want to try to work into the interview that I could relate to the questions… here is the program that I wrote (in javascript).

var questions = [a, b, c, d, e]

var a = "Tell me about yourself and how you got where you are."

var b = "Why do you see computer programming as the next step."

var c = "When did you do programming before/ what did you like about it -- what was your favorite part"

var d = "Tell me about where you want to go moving forward after the program environment you'd like to be in etc"

var e = "What are your hobbies/ what do you do?"

var stories = [f, g, h, i, j]

var f = "Teaching -> G Gnome rap"

var g = "Writing a book/ writing group "

var h = "Working at Verengo / Corporate environment"

var i = "Writing group/ community learning"

var j = "Gardening and Cooking"

var selectQuest = function (questions)

   {while (questions.length > 0)

   {

  numb = Math.floor((Math.random() * questions.length) + 0);

    var givenQuest =questions[numb];

    var reply = prompt (givenQuest);

    console.log (givenQuest);

    console.log ("you said " + reply);

    console.log ("points you should have touched")

   

    switch(givenQuest)

    {

    case a:

    console.log (f);

    console.log (h);

    break;

    case  b:

    console.log (h);

    break;

    case c:

    console.log (i);

    break;

    case d:

    console.log (i);

    console.log (f);

    break;

    case e:

    console.log (i);

    console.log (j);

    break;

    default: console.log ("talk about unicorns");

};

 questions.splice(numb,1);

 console.log(" ")

 }

   }

selectQuest (questions)

*****

This was my output for my first (successful) run…

When did you do programming before/ what did you like about it -- what was your favorite part

you said:

 I did programming for the first time when I was in college. I was required to take intro to c++, so I did, and I liked it, but I was hell bent on getting a degree in Environmental studies so I could be a park ranger or something, so I didn't think much about pursuing computer science until I started to meet people who are programmers and they thought I would enjoy it and might be good at it so about a year ago I started doing some exercises on code academy and I've kind of dabbled here and there ever since. Fav part is efficiency of language… when you hit on that perfect something…

 points you should have touched

 Writing group/ community learning  

Tell me about where you want to go moving forward after the program environment you'd like to be in etc

 you said

I want to work in an environment where I will be challenged and will be able to reach out to my peers to get and offer support and advice and where I can feel like I am contributing. I want there to be more of something at the end of the day than there was at the beginning and I want to have peers who I can turn to and be like "dude, I just accomplished this thing" and we can geek out about it. 

points you should have touched

 Writing group/ community learning Teaching -> G Gnome rap  

What are your hobbies/ what do you do?

you said

 I enjoy everything to do with vegetables. I like to grow them, cook them, eat them, compost them. I also like to write. I go to a couple local writing groups through meet up and I like to do outdoorsy/ athletic things when I can.

points you should have touched

Writing group/ community learning Gardening and Cooking  

Why do you see computer programming as the next step.

you said

technology brings people together in unique ways. It can be used to find common threads between people to bring them together or to make a learning experience more personalized and relatable. I just really appreciate the way technology can enhance experiences and interactions off the screen and I want to be a part of that.  points you should have touched

Working at Verengo / Corporate environment  

Tell me about yourself and how you got where you are.

you said

A couple years back I was working at a moving company in the Bay area and I just didn't feel like I was doing enough with my life, so I decided I wanted to be a teacher. My brother is a teacher in AZ and he told me if I could pass a science test I would have no problem getting a job in AZ as a teacher -- despite the fact that I do not have any background in education, so I studied for a few months, took a couple online classes, got some shots and finger prints and BAM got offered a job at every school I applied to. However, I didn't have any idea what it was like to work with a class room full of students until I was actually there in that environment and as it turns out, it is very isolating to be the only adult and I prefer to work with adults rather than kids, so I bowed out of that, took some time off and wrote a book then decided to get a job for a solar company which is where I am now. And there are a lot of things I enjoy about myjob, but I still don't feel like I am being challenged enough and creating enough. I want a job where there is more at the end of the day than there was at the beginning 

points you should have touched

Teaching -> G Gnome rap Working at Verengo / Corporate environment