Human Skills Reflection

Learning Competencies

By the end of this challenge, you should be able to:

• Reflect on your learning journey into the Human Skills covered in the Foundations curriculum to date.
• Publish your reflections as a personal blog.

Summary

You have now reached the final sprint of your Foundations curriculum. What a journey it has been! Let's reflect on all you have learnt as part of the Human Skills component of Foundations and share this as a personal blog.

Time Box

Overview - Foundations Human Skills

Let's take a moment to complete a high-level review of all the Foundations Human Skills you have completed to date:

Sprint 1:

• Thinking like a web developer Primer
• Identity and values exploration
• Introduce yourself exercise

Sprint 2:

• My Learning Plan

Sprint 3:

• Emotional Intelligence

Sprint 4:

• Neuroplasticity and growth mindset
• Listening and Looping

Understanding yourself in the context of others and utilising your Human Skills will set you up for Bootcamp and your career in the Tech Industry.

Tech employers aren't looking for top grades or the person with the most outstanding code. They're looking for exceptional human beings who will enhance the culture of their team.

Human Skills has introduced you to techniques to train your mind. You have (hopefully) learnt helpful ways of understanding problems and, through your practice, will have strengthened your self-solving skills.

Let's take a moment now to reflect on your journey and complete a short journaling exercise.

Journal

You can either open a blank text document or grab a pen and paper and set a timer for 2 minutes to complete this exercise.

The prompt for you is "What surprised me the most about the Human Skills learning is...".

Once you start writing for the prompt, you don't stop until your 2 minutes is up.

Think about your experience of the Human Skills learnings in Foundations and just write. If you run out of things to say, just write, "I've run out of things to say - I don't know what to say... this is boring... I hate it when I'm bored." Whatever comes. Over time, you'll find that cognitions and emotions become easier to identify and write about.

This journaling piece is not for public display. This is for your eyes only unless you wish to share.

Reflection

Utilising your journal findings and the high-level overview of the Human Skills learnings you have covered in Foundations - answer each of the following questions:

• What are three new things you have learnt about yourself and your ego due to the Human Skills learning?
• What are the role of values, empathy, and self-awareness in learning and programming?
• What has surprised you the most about the Human Skills learning?
• What were the most challenging aspects of the Human Skills learning?
• Why do you think we, a programming school, are spending so much time focusing on Human Skills learning in a web development Bootcamp course?
• Does the time you spent studying Human Skills learning here feel like a waste of time? Should you have just used that time to practise programming instead? Justify your answer.

Create and Publish

Add a file named foundations-reflection.html to your blog and add your reflections to it.