CS371p Spring 2021: Andrew Yin

What did you do this past week?

A friend of mine from another university came to visit yesterday so we walked around campus and got food. I also registered for my classes and was pretty satisfied with the ones that I got in to. I also finished up some of my homework.

What’s in your way?

We’re heading towards the end of the semester and I’m burning out a little bit (starting assignments later and later, being less focused, etc.)

What will you do next week?

I will try to start the Life project and maybe study for my upcoming exams.

If you read it, what did you think of the What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You?

It’s good to hear about these experiences so we can learn to avoid making these issues worse and to help fix them.

What was your experience of Life and inheritance? (this question will vary, week to week)

I found it interesting how C++ does it compared to Java. It makes a lot of sense; Java doesn’t have pointers so it doesn’t have to worry about the specifics around using pointers with regards to parent and child classes. I think it’s nice how C++ gives us the virtual keyword so we can have more control over how methods are overridden and which method gets called when the overlying variable is of the parent class’ type.

What made you happy this week?

One of my high school friends came to visit us so that was nice.

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

Be careful about where you post your email. In applying to job interviews, I’ve made accounts for websites in order to apply to a certain opening, and some of those accounts made my profile is public without my knowledge (making my email, phone number, etc.) public as well and I’ve recently gotten a couple of emails from dubious companies asking for “interviews.” I probably should have been more careful (it’s easy to kind of just get used to filling in the same information everywhere when applying for jobs) but it’s not a super big deal.