CS 373 Week 10: Simon Pinochet Concha

Simon Pinochet Concha
Nov 4 · 2 min read

What did you do this past week?

This week I completed a bunch of assignments for my RTF class. I’ve been neglecting the class a little, only doing assignments every few weeks rather than once a week so I’m extremely late, but it’s a fun class and I’m on my way to being on track again. I also had to redo the backend to support arrays, which involved linking together a bunch of tables and having a complicated thing to connect everything together. It was hard, but it works and now our backend is ready almost ready for this phase.

What’s in your way?

I have a chemistry exam on Tuesday and I haven’t studied much because of being overwhelmed by all my other classes. I got a 96 on the first exam so even if I do poorly it’ll balance out, but it’d be nice to keep the streak going. Also, I’ve no idea how to write the backend unit tests yet, but I’ll worry about that after the test.

What will you do next week?

I’ll study for my test all day tomorrow, take the test on Tuesday, try to be done with the backend right after the test, even if it means another all-nighter, work on OOP on Wednesday and turn in this week’s assignment, and finally finish about 7 RTF assignments between Today and Thursday, working on them whenever I find free time. If I manage to do all this before Friday I’ll spend next weekend in my room playing Death Stranding, I’ll have fun, and then go back to class on Monday.

What was your experience of SQL?

I’m working on the backend so it was pretty useful stuff. I had to learn about SQL before this week because of the backend so it wasn’t really too new, but the class gave us the idea to structure our database to have a bunch of tables linked together to make the next phase easier to manage (i.e. have everything that’s related actually be related table-wise).

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

You can use VS Code to directly commit and push to gitlab. I didn’t know about this until this week and it has noticeably improved my productivity. If you use the terminal to commit and push, try to use the VS Code built-in tool. It’s a lot smoother.

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