CS373 Fall 2019: Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald
Nov 4 · 2 min read

What did you do this past week?

This week has been an incredibly exciting week for me. I have been working on the next phase of the project and also working on my game dev. project but most importantly I have been experiencing the last legs of my job search journey. On Tuesday one of the companies I have an offer for took me out to lunch, and on Friday I had the lovely opportunity to fly out to the bay area and visit another company. I am excited to finally make a choice for my post-school life.

What’s in your way?

Time has been very limited this week as I have been traveling and spending time doing other things outside of schoolwork. This has limited my capacity to work on my group projects.

What will you do next week?

I plan on finishing up search features for the back end for the next project deadline. I also need to finish the alpha of my capstone game, as I have completely rewritten the client's system of handling input.

What was your experience of SQL?

SQL seems to be very flexible and has a lot of utility. I’m still not super familiar with the syntax but practicing it on hackerrank in class was a huge help and helps me understand some of the stuff I am doing with SQLAlchemy for the project.

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

My pick of the week is about the programming language Go. Go is an incredibly interesting programming language with a very nice tutorial on their website that demonstrates how to use the language. I really like how the language handles list-like objects. Go uses something called a slice (similar to a python slice) that is then resized with a built-in function. it works in an incredibly nice way.

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