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Use critical thinking skills to answer a client’s request on a web page you developed.

Estimated time in hours

1

What is the purpose of this assignment?

A client requested the navigation bar at the bottom of their web page. Research what best practice is and why this would be a good, a bad or a neutral idea.

These are the tips to help you write it:

• Provide appropriate and sufficient arguments and examples
• Research arguments against and for the statement before coming to your conclusions.
• Choose terms that are precise, appropriate, and persuasive
• Make clear the transitions from one thought to another to ensure the overall logic of the presentation

How to submit

• Create a text with at least 250 words.
• Make sure your text is reviewed by a grammar tool. It should have at most 3 mistakes.
• Add the link to the Google doc to comment on this issue. Make sure it is open for anyone to comment.

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Write a critical thinking piece about machine learning

Estimated time in hours

1

What is the purpose of this assignment?

Use your critical thinking knowledge to write a text about machine learning. Are you in favour or against and why?

These are the tips to help you writing it:

• Provide appropriate and sufficient arguments and examples
• Choose terms that are precise, appropriate, and persuasive
• Make clear the transitions from one thought to another to ensure the overall logic of the presentation

How to submit

• Create a text with at least 250 words.
• Make sure your text is reviewed by a grammar tool. It should have at most 3 mistakes.
• Add the link to the Google doc to comment on this issue. Make sure it is open for anyone to comment.

Anything else?

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Organise a study session with your group. Use this session to work through your Personal Development coursework as a team.

1. Set up the invite on Google Calendar
2. Define the agenda (what aspects of the PD lessons or coursework you will be covering)
3. Have the session using either Google Meet or Slack.
   This must be done before the next class.

Estimated time in hours

0.5

What is the purpose of this assignment?

The aim is to have one study session with a group at least once every module, but you can decide as a group how often you want to have it recur.
Once you’ve decided on the periodicity after your first session, edit your calendar invite to a recurring meeting.

How to submit

• Add a screenshot of the calendar invite as a comment to this ticket
• Add a comment summarising how your first session went and what you discussed

Anything else?

Use this video to learn how to create a calendar invite.

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Draft an email to apply for an internship at a fictional company called Vonda. Make sure to include the five things below:

1. Why you want to become a software developer
2. Your background and your past
3. What you are doing at the moment
4. Where you see yourself in the future
5. Why Vonda should give you the opportunity to do an internship

The email should be formatted in a way that is ready to be sent. Make sure you include a subject title and pay attention to the formatting (font type and size, alignment etc).

Estimated time in hours

1

What is the purpose of this assignment?

This assignment aims to improve your writing skills.

How to submit

Share the link to the Google doc on the ticket on your coursework board.