CS 373 Fall 2021 Blog 7

What did you do this past week?

This past week I had a final round interview with one of the companies I applied for. I started researching the tools that I would need to use for the second phase of the SWE project. Other than that, I did not have too many assignments or projects to work on, so I took some time to relax.

What’s in your way?

I did not have much in my way this week. It was a pretty low stress week because all my important tasks were completed.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I have a midterm in one of the business classes that I am taking, so I will need to study hard for that. I will continue to work on the second phase of the SWE project with my group. I will also be going back home for the weekend, so I will get to spend some time with my family.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #7: Open-Closed Principle?

I did read this paper, and I believe I read a similar paper when I took the Object-Oriented Programming course last semester. I think that this paper highlights very important concepts. In my internship this past summer, one thing that was always brought up when I showed my code was maintainability. We always considered how to write our code such that we could easily make extensions of it in the future. This paper really describes the principle that drives this maintainability.

What was your experience of operators, and iteration? (this question will vary, week to week)

My prior experience in Python was in the Artificial Intelligence class I took last semester. I did not use much iteration in that class. I am glad that Professor Downing took time to cover it. I found these pieces of information to be very helpful. I was also not familiar with the zip structure in Python, so it was interesting to learn about. Operators seems like a very useful tool with multiple applications, so I will try to see if I can use it in the future.

What made you happy this week?

I received an offer from the company that I interviewed for in this past week. I was pretty happy since I have mostly faced rejections in this recruiting season.

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

My pick of the week is w3schools.com. This is a website which has a lot of information about various programming languages. It has some information about SQL, JavaScript, and various other technologies and languages.