CS373 Blog: Week 3
Updates for my Software Engineering peers and teachers!
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I read and watched a film adaptation of Poor Liza, a work of Russian literature written by Karamzin, for my Russian Lit class. Both the short story and the movie were very interesting to me, as they spoke on topics like civilization vs nature, sentimentalism, and innocent love. Overall, it’s a short story I would definitely recommend reading!
2. What’s in your way?
For my Algo class I just find the concepts and course material very boring and uninteresting. As a result, it’s unbelievably hard for me to listen to lecture, which as a result ends up with me struggling on the problem sets. (I’m planning to pass/fail the class anyway so thank god for that).
3. What will you do next week?
This next week I’ll hopefully finish the Collatz project soon and read some more Russian literature material for my class.
4. If you read it, what did you think of the Continuous Integration?
Continuous Integration was some form of a foreign material for me, because I have had to use git control for previous projects but I had never really seen and used features like the pipeline. Overall, I think Continuous Integration is a very beneficial and good thing to become comfortable with.
5. What was your experience of Collatz? (this question will vary, week to week)
The Collatz project was fairly straightforward and simple, but I am a bit embarassed to say I got stuck on the 3rd HackerRank test because I accidentally messed up the order of returning i,j, and max_cycle_length without realizing and that caused me to be very confused for a while.
6. What was your experience of exceptions? (this question will vary, week to week)
I’ve used exceptions before in my Java courses in high school and in freshman year during data structures, so I am fairly familiar with the concept of using them to catch user input errors.
7. What made you happy this week?
This week I landed the internship offer at a company I did not think was within my reach and skill! I’m very ecstatic about it and excited to work there. (What’s even cooler is my roommate also got the same internship offer).
8. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is to invest in a good monitor for your coding purposes!! (If you haven’t already). Having a second screen to look at while you’re coding (looking at the project instructions, stack overflow (haha), or Netflix) is something that I can’t live without, and it’s definitely a good investment if you plan to continue to code in the future.
