Welcome to everything that you need to know about me!
This document will give you an insight into how I work best and will hopefully explain why. After reading this document if you have an questions about how I work which I didn't answer feel free to open a issue on this repository or Slack me!
I am an Associate AND Friendly Host in club Turing who joined AND in September 2018. I am just starting my career having graduated from University of Southampton with BSc Computer Science in the summer of 2018.
I grew up in Wokingham and this summer moved to Finsbury Park with my new wife Emma. I love to spend my weekends having friends and family to visit or having people over for dinner, hence my AND title. And on the few occasions I get the chance I do some gaming, most commonly Total War or Cities: Skylines.
- I best understand concepts by asking questions before jumping into to something. So please let me know if I ever go overboard on questions.
- I don't mind task switching and will happily do a few things at once switching between in an asynchronous manner. However if there are too many things going on at once then this can stress me out.
- I often use headphones while working but please feel free to disturb me and talk to me. I will put up a little sign if I really don't want to be disturbed but it is rare.
- Spelling and handwriting are not my strong points, so please bear with me! Don't be afraid to ask me to clarify if you can't read my handwriting.
- Working hours: I try to be in the office by 9am prompt and usually leave between 5/5:30pm.
- Contact: If you need to get in touch ping me a message on Slack.
Please always give me any feedback that you have for me. As I have only just started my career I am eager to improve both my work and the way that I go about it.
I'm happy to have feedback in any form although it helps to have a written copy so I can refer back to it. I appreciate when feedback isn't anonymous although I understand this isn't always possible. I do promise to not hold any feedback against people!
- Took the test on joining in September 2018.
- I am dominate in Blue and Green, the most common profile (18.92% of database).
- I like to solve problems and think through things logically.
- Organisation is important to me and I appreciate sticking to plans.
- I am quite intuitive but can struggle to imagine the big picture or be creative.
- I have strong verbal communication but sometimes aren't as sensitive as I should be.
- Under pressure I move from Yellow to Red as I focus on the detail and talk through the problems.
Having just graduated and joined AND I am really eager to learn! My current targets are to make real contributions as a developer, to be able to solve problems for clients and to develop code independently.
| Language | Production code | Learnt (A lot) | Learnt (A bit) | One coursework at Uni |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Javascript | X | |||
| Java | X | |||
| Python | X | |||
| C++ | X | |||
| C | X | |||
| HTML | X | |||
| CSS | X | |||
| C# | X | |||
| Visual Basic | X | |||
| Scheme | X | |||
| OCaml | X | |||
| ARM Assembly | X |
I enjoy finding out how languages work so I can work out which approach might be the best to take.