CS 373 Fall 2021 Blog 10

What did you do this past week?

This past week I worked on the remaining tasks for the front end for the second phase of the SWE project. I worked on other assignments in some of my other classes.

What’s in your way?

There is nothing much in my way right now. I do have an upcoming midterm to prepare for. However, the rest of my classes do not have too much work, so that is good.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I have a midterm to prepare for and take. This will take up a lot of my time, since there is a lot of information to retain. I do not have much work in my other classes. I will work on the front-end to handle filtering and sorting on the various models.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #10: Dependency Inversion Principle?

I did read this paper. I think that it was another really good paper with concepts to think about as we develop code. Although not all parts of it correlate to the current SWE project, it is good to start thinking about it as we will begin to develop intricate code in our careers. I like how there is some connection to the previous papers. This is helpful as we can build up this knowledge as the weeks progress.

What was your experience of =, *, ** and regular expressions? (this question will vary, week to week)

My experience was pretty good. I have used regular expressions before in programming competitions during high school, although there were in Java. It was a good refresher, since I had mostly forgotten a lot of the ones I had used. I have not used * or ** in any of my Python classes, so it was good to learn about this information. I think that it is a pretty useful tool.

What made you happy this week?

I finished my Neural Networks assignment on time. I really struggled with this one, and it took me a lot of time to figure it out. I am glad that I was able to get it done.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My tip of the week is https://www.frontendmentor.io/. This is a great website to improve your front end skills. It gives you programming problems that you can solve with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. There is a lot to learn about these languages, especially for the SWE project. For everyone who is working front end or is interested in developing front end skills, this is a good resource to use.