CS373: Week 8
What did you do this past week?
This past week, my group made a lot of progress on the software engineering project. We are very close to finishing and I’m very happy with how the website it looking now!
What’s in your way?
This past week has been especially busy from tests and projects, so I’m a little behind on some of my other classes because of all the work and stress. Hopefully I can make a lot of progress catching up this next week.
What will you do next week?
Next week will hopefully be much more straightforward. I plan on attending all the lectures prepared with the previous material, and asking for help at office hours if anything remains unclear.
If you read it, what did you think of the Interface Segregation Principle?
The paper’s argument made a lot of sense in general, and I found the examples compelling. It explains that we should only use the interface that provides exactly what we need, and that asking for additional unused information may cause head-scratchers in the future. To solve this, we can split interfaces up and inherit only the parts we actually need.
What was your experience of comprehensions, yield, closures, and decorators?
I thought that yield generators have the potential to be very powerful, since they will try to do the minimum amount of work required. I’m curious about ways we can use them in dynamic programming. I was not particularly fond of closures, since it seems like a very easy thing to miss and debug, and I’m still not sure why Python has implemented them. I found decorators very interesting. Their syntax is simple yet allows frameworks to add a lot of heavy-lifting to the code. The flask application for the most recent project makes a lot more sense now as well.
What made you happy this week?
I got the first dose of the COVID vaccine! I feel very lucky and I’m hoping many others will be able to get one soon as well.
What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
Use MySQL Workbench to connect to a database and test queries. You can easily connect it into an AWS RDS database, and is very helpful for debugging and making sure all the information is correct.
