Weekly SWE Blog of 3 Sep — 9 Sep
What did you do this past week?
This week I’ve been settling into my new schedules. I had my first discussion section as a TA for 439, and attended mandatory training for it. I’ve been talking with several people in the department about something I hope can come to fruition, and if it does I’ll talk about it more later. I switched into two classes and dropped two classes this past Tuesday. Unfortunately I’m still catching up. I didn’t realize I wasn’t added to Piazza and I didn’t know about these weekly blogs until today.
What’s in your way?
There isn’t a lot in my way currently. I just need to realign my calendar with my new class schedule
What will you do next week?
I’m going to be holding my first office hours. That will be interesting. I’ll continue working on my goals as the Academic officer in HACS and prepare for a presentation I’ll be giving at the Tapia Conference the week after.
What’s your experience of the class? (this question will vary, week to week)
The pace of the class seems slow, but I think that’s usual of most first/second weeks of classes. I don’t like not having much to do, so now that we’ve got our first project I’m sure I’ll find it more interesting. I fortunately got a lot of workflow experience this past summer at Pandora so setting up the workflow for Project 1 isn’t taking too much learning, just doing. I don’t particularly like the UI/flow for creating many new issues at a time in GitLab though.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is the new Spiderman game coming out. Haven’t played it yet, and might not get to anytime soon, but reading up on how they manage to squeeze out performance and detail from the hardware and how they create these games from a technical perspective is always interesting to me. Here’s a pretty high overview they have on the playstation blog. Game development doesn’t particularly interest me in terms of future career but I think it’s pretty interesting to learn how other fields manage to do the cool things they do, and can give foundations/context for new ideas of your own.
