[MUSIC] You've reached the end of the week and now it's your turn. In your assignment this week we're going to ask you to submit a video of you explaining a technical project that you've worked on just like Leo, Mia, and I did at the beginning of this week. And you'll submit it for the review by your peers. So in order to get set up for this assignment you're going to need a few things. First thing you're going to need is a video camera. You'll need to be able to video yourself and whatever work space you're using to scribe your technical solution. It can be any video camera as long as it takes a reasonably high quality video such that your peer reviewers will be able to see what you're writing and hear what you're talking about. The next thing that you'll need is some writing surface, so you'll want to use some diagrams in your technical explanation, so make sure you've got somewhere to write. It could be a white board, a chalkboard, even just a big piece of paper, just tape a piece of paper on the wall and use a nice dark marker to do your diagrams. The other thing that you'll need is someone to talk to. So you don't absolutely have to have this person in your video, but it will work better if you do. So grab a friend, grab a parent, grab a sister, whatever you like, and have them play the part of the interviewer in this video. So just like you saw Mia, and Leo and I doing in our videos, this person should pretend to be interviewing you. They should start out by asking you to describe your work and they should play along as if they had some technical knowledge. They should be, the audience for this video is somebody who is technically competent, but maybe not specific knowledge in your particular area. So once you've got those things you're ready to go. What we'll ask you to do is we'll ask you to choose some project from your resume. And then to present that project. Now remember that any project that you list on your resume is fair game for a question like this. So make sure you've pruned down your resume to include only projects that you feel comfortable talking about like this. But for this video, we'll just actually choose one of those projects. Then you should record yourself playing the interview, just like we did. And submit this for peer review. When you're developing your explanation, we encourage you again to use that STAR model, where you describe the situation, the task, the action, and the result, and also to keep in mind the evaluation criteria that we talked about. How well did you explain the project, sorry, the problem and its context? How much did you make your audience and your interviewer care about this problem? How well did you explain the technical solution and how are your soft skills? Because these are the things that your peer reviewers will be giving you feedback on. Now unlike your video back in, back last week that you took of the live coding in the Google Doc, these videos will be shared. We know this is an uncomfortable situation. We know it's not always comfortable to record yourself and then put those videos out there for everyone to see. Believe me, we notice. But it's something that is going to really help in preparing for your technical interviews. Just think about it, in your technical interview you're going to be going in there and describing your work to perfect strangers. So the process of putting a video online should help you get more comfortable doing this sort of presentation of yourself to people you don't know. The other way this video is going to differ from last week is that we do want you to practice. So last week the first video we didn't want you to practice at all. This video you should practice a lot before recording it. Make sure you're ready just like you will be ready in a technical interview. If you screw up one video just erase it and start over again. This is not something were we want to get just the very first cold take. So, good luck with this assignment and we look forward to seeing some of your videos.
