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title: Arman Kabir Interview

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# Arman Kabir Interview
### 9/16/2020
**Course:** iOS
**University:** CUNY Hunter College
### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Senior, was pre-med for 2 years 
- Was always interested in programming, even since high school, realized he did not enjoy pre-med as much and finally made the commitment to swith over to CS
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*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Used to be a big windows user, but always had an iPhone, was learning to code, and felt he eventually felt he wanted to make an iOS app
- Tried web design, C++, out of all the languages and programming he felt he liked iOS the most and Swift programming with the Xcode interface - this is what drove him to iOS in general 
- Teaching in general scares a lot of people, but has some experience teaching, was an undergrad TA for the first Data Structrures course at his school. 
    - Did well in the course, spoke to teacher and became a TA
- Teaching in general helps him understand concepts better, understands their is a lot of patience needed but he really enjoys teaching
- Saw that the TF opportunity was more hands on for teaching and running the course
- Is a rewarding feeling helping 

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- Patience, understands how to 

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Communication, being able to be friendly with the student and not seem like an authoratative figure
- As a student he felt he had trouble reaching out to the TA sometimes because of intimidation
- Transparency is huge

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- Communication, thinks its very important as a soft skill - bc when coding it is very important to communicate your code effectively
    - Code Explanation, really important skill to have
- Technical skills in general, learn how to make a full stack ios app
- Collaborative workflow
- Getting better at using Github , github issues, and commits to communicate better with teammates



### 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:**
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* **Verdict:** Pass

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