Object Oriented

CS371p Spring 2021 Final Entry: Ethan Lao

How well do you think the course conveyed those takeaways?
I thought the course did a great job of conveying the takeaways. I think the biggest one is about testing: it is always smart to think of the end goal result first before starting on the…

CS371p: Week 9

What did you do this past week?
This week was much more relaxed since I don’t have any urgent projects due next week. I attended all the lectures and started working on the next project. My partner and I met a couple times, discussing the overall structure (with a UML diagram) at first, then working…

CS371p: Week 8

What did you do this past week?
This past week, I was mainly focusing on the software engineering project. My group made a lot of progress on it and we are very close to finishing. I’m very happy with how the website it looking now!

CS371p: Week 7

What did you do this past week?
My partner and I started on the new allocator project, which definitely took some time to understand. We had some trouble trying to implement the iterator at first, but Friday’s lecture really helped and allowed us to find a working solution.

CS371p: Week 6

What did you do this past week?
I finished up the Voting project with my partner, which involved fixing one specific edge case, writing a few more tests, and some logistics like creating the documentation. The hardest part of the project was definitely setting up the I/O, but now that we better…

CS371p: Week 5

What did you do this past week?
I worked with a friend on this class’s Voting project. We set up our repo and wrote an implementation, which almost passed all the HackerRank test cases. Our code is aborting in a specific scenario, so we still have some issues to take care of this week.

CS371p: Week 4

What did you do this past week?
This past week I completed the Collatz project on time, attended the lectures, and looked through the online notes afterwards to make sure I understood everything.

CS371p: Week 3

What did you do this past week?
This past week, I started working on optimizing code for finding the Collatz cycle length. To do this, I tried out several caching strategies, continuously modifying them until they worked and passed all three test cases on HackerRank.

CS371p: Week 2

What did you do this past week?
I started looking at the projects for a few of my classes (multiple were recently assigned!), so I’m still adjusting as the coursework picks up.

CS371p Spring 2021: Ethan Lao

Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Austin, Texas.

What high school did you attend?
Westwood High School