{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"Kai's Awesome Dev Blog","author":"Kai Lovingfoss"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"8fd108d2-697c-53b3-828f-7dd370636517","excerpt":"So, this is my first week in CS, and there’s a lot on the docket. The coding challenges themselves are not too bad, and the coursework light enough to be…","html":"<p>So, this is my first week in CS, and there’s a lot on the docket. The coding challenges themselves are not too bad, and the coursework light enough to be pleasurable, but I think that that’s by design: this is the time to plan out what we need to do for the next month or so.</p>\n<p>So I know what I want to do and want to focus on, which is the following:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get an account on AlgoTutor and start doing 2 problems a day</li>\n<li>After the above, apply to TripleByte and make my job-hunt a little more efficent</li>\n<li>Watch the company presentations, and apply to them</li>\n<li>To do so, I need a cleaned up resume, and a strong LinkedIn (almost there!)</li>\n<li>Plus, I need a updated, clean portfolio, hopefully something I can accomplish this week</li>\n<li>Read the Data Struct/Algo in Python book (seems really good)</li>\n<li>Apply to the Pioneer/Lambda challenge to maximize chances to stipend </li>\n<li>Which means building out that idea from Bad Version </li>\n<li>Reach out to the Punahou community in LinkedIn, my only viable community out here</li>\n<li>Reach out to the recruiters I talk to before, figure out how to build out some sort of network</li>\n<li>and of course, keep up with coursework</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Gah, that’s a lot. I will update this post once I can melt this down into a few actionable things I can do for Tuesday and Wednesday, and kind of try to whittle this down as I go. I also want to write up some technical posts if I do go for the pioneer challenge, as that would make even a failure a valuable repository of information that I can use later on when I try to make other systems. </p>\n<p>There is a lot to do, and not that much time. I need to just do what I can for now. Forget the distractions; the problem is, what is a distraction, what is a main focus? Must work on this.</p>","frontmatter":{"title":"CS Week 1 - Gameplan, Ideas on the Pioneer challenge, and what I need to focus on","date":"March 19, 2019"}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/2019-03-19-cs-week-1-gameplan-ideas-on-the-pioneer-challenge-and-what-i-need-to-focus-on/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/2019-03-15-labs-4-retrospective-uiux-crucible/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Labs 4 Retrospective - UIUX Crucible"}},"next":{"fields":{"slug":"/2019-03-20-cs-day-3-formalizing-what-i-need-to-do-the-rest-of-the-week/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"CS Day 3 - Formalizing what I need to do the rest of the week"}}}}