Blogs: Week of 30 Mar — 5 Apr(10th entry)
- What did you do this past week?
This past week, we talked about the initializer list on Monday, had test 1b on Wednesday, and talked about the Darwin project on Friday. Beyond that, I worked from home for my part-time intern where we started an exciting new project. I also finished homework for other classes and worked on group projects for Data Mining and Programming for P&C with my team.
2. What’s in your way?
I need to work on the part assigned to me for the Data Mining project, wrap up the project for Programming for P&C with my partner, and review the class material, finish work for my intern, and start my Mathematical Stats homework.
3. What will you do next week?
I will start the Darwin project and finish whatever I left from the weekend. Darwin seems much more work than Allocator since we have none of the files provided and it also has more classes to write. Hopefully, I could get it down by the end of next week, so I don’t need to deal with it with all of my exams in two weeks.
4. What was your experience of Test #1b? (this question will vary, week to week)
I think the setup was a mess. I thought I was the only one who could not log in to zoom at first, but later realize the whole class was blocked out of zoom. As a result, I ended up wasting like 10 mins on trying to open zoom since the TAs are updating the piazza saying they’ve fixed it, but the zoom never worked during the period of the exam. For the test, I’m amazed at how professor Downing was able to manipulate the questions so that they look extremely similar to test 1a but the subtle differences actually tested some new aspect of our knowledge on what we’ve learned so far.
5. What made you happy this week?
I started to work on a spaceship puzzle with my friends. It has 1500 pieces which are quite a lot of work, but I’m glad we already figured some part of the structure out and it was really fun.
6. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is C++ primer. It is a great book of C++ with detailed descriptions and examples, and it walks you through the built-in functions and libraries of C++.
