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# Nada El-Zaini Interview
### May 17 2020
**Course:** iOS
**University:** San Jose State University
### Personal Questions
*Tell me about yourself.*
- Senior year - graduating May 2021
- ever since started coding been exploring many different fields
- really liked iOS dev and coding in swift after taking CP
- loves teaching and sharing knowledge
- this role would really help combine her interests and passions
- really into mobile dev
- Always been really interested in technology since was a kid - was also good at math bc liked solving problems and ever since first CS class became pretty obsessed
- Did some basic uDemy course apps on iOS before CP - nothing too crazy

*Why do you want to apply as a Tech Fellow?*
- Saw how her TFs were really motivated and passionate about teaching and guiding the class
- likes having the responsibility of organizing and being in charge of getting something done
- also really wants to be able to inspire people and hopefully share something that someone didn't know and help feeling 

*What skills do you have that would contribute as a Tech Fellow? Prior experiences?*
- Worked before as a product advisor at the Microsoft store - did some workshops where she taught people how to use Excel and some coding workshops
- did a lot of one on one trainings where taugh people about microsoft products
- Prior programming knowledge
- Has well rounded experience in talking to people

*What does it take to build a good community in the classroom?*
- Being honest and giving honest feedback helps
- from her exp. - profs haven't always given good in depth feedback on a project
- feels like giving thoughtful feedback helps build relationship of instructor and student
- Just being yourself is an important attribute 

*What skills do you want to build/improve on? (technical/non-technical)*
- As a student always likes when teacher is going through walkthrough step-by-step
- being able to demonstrate how the student will do it will help her
- often times when teaching its easy to become theoretical - live coding session would be good bc could demonstrate how things work and explain what is being done in each step
- would want improvement on the syntax and being able to explain more of what's happening in the Swift code
    - better programming knowledge about the 

*What would you improve in CodePath?*
- Going over swift fundimantals 

- sometimes in the class would notice some people would fall behind and some people would be on track - some people had trouble bc their version of xcode and their skills
    - would want to have a better way to gauge that everyone is on track and following a good pace 

### 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:** Passionate about coding 
* **Verdict:** Pass

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