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# Judy Liu Interview
### 5/31/2020
**Course:** iOS
**University:** UCSD
### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Studies computer science, joined codepath for the first time Spring with iOS because she saw a Facebook post about Android, Android was cancelled so went to iOS
- 1st year
- Plays piano, likes to dance

- When in course a lot of times just copied videos - didnt understand what was going on but now kinda does 

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- During the course, TFs helped him a lot with her errors. Initially she didnt know how to debug too much so TFs helped teach her a lot
    - now she knows how to debug and she wants to be able to give back and teach others how to debug

- teaches math and some other tech stuff to get people understanding software in general, really likes teaching and this could be another path for teaching
    - the videos walk you through to so much detail so it's easy to rely 


- Got involved really randomly with MassageBot - ucsd startup
    - how did hear?
        - went on social event, talked with some people, they were involved with massage bot, thought they were cool, needed a coding person, she offered herself, they checked
    - Social event was for Data science - it was not intentional
    - how did get convinced?
        - The project they were doing seemed something legit because they were collaborating with a professor and they have a small product built already - also she has experience with arduino from the past - so thought it was good fitting for her because of her experience and also offered to make an app if so need be later on 
    - a lot of times its easier to get into motive and inspire yourself
    - A lot of the times personally what convinces her - is understanding if that thing will benefit her somehow - that is what's attractive to her in an opportunity
        - needs to see how they will instantly gratify
        - codepath for example teaches 
        - something that will give you a promise of what you want

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- used to teach math in HS, during that process of teaching a bigger class - learned about what are some things she needs to do to ensure understanding and learnign
- Tech Dev in WIC (women in computing) learned the importance of communicating to ensure course runs smoothly - ask questions
- leadership
    - in terms of guiding people who are in need and understanding where they come from and helping 

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- There must be something that keeps like a big goal that everyone wants to reach
- positive energy, excite students
- good 2 - way communication and engagement

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- Technical
    - wants to actually be a better coder in both frontend and backend, understanding how to debug better, understanding more depth of each line of code
- Nontechnical
    - Wants to improve on communication, despite her being good, she knows there could be improvements bc she often 
    - Writing in general, because initially when she builds a thought it takes a while to see the thought through - it takes her longer than other people to build a presentation or report bc she needs to think things through thoroughly
    - Public speaking - wants to be better when she isnt the person who wrote the slides
    - building logical flow 

*What would you improve in CodePath?*
- One thing is that its really great in giving you a bigger picture of ios dev, but often times the small things, still hard to understand - makes sense because trying to cover so much content in one course
    - provide more resources for people who want to learn more
- Awesome we have optional section, bc can build more if youre interested
    - optional however is going into learning more big pictures but not the depth students probably need.


### Live Demo 
Applicants should present their favorite tool that they used from the previous course that they've taken with. This should be presented through slides.

* **Additional notes:**
* **Verdict:** Pass

ASK TF IF ANY QUESTIONS?

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