CS371p Spring 2021 Week 3: Andrew Yin

What did you do this past week?

I finished a lot of my homework and also went to the UTPC team contest this Friday. I also started on grading for my grading job (this is my first time grading for a UT class, and it’s actually really time-consuming in my opinion).

What’s in your way?

I have a lot of homework each week and it’s tough to stay motivated to work, especially since I pretty much just stay inside all day so there’s not much variety in my life right now.

What will you do next week?

Next week I will probably just keep doing homework/watch Youtube (the usual).

If you read it, what did you think of the Continuous Integration?

Continuous Integration seems like a simple but very effective concept. It seems to revolve around the concept of “do work now to save time later” which admittedly, I am not good at at all. Continuous Integration seems extremely useful for large scale projects with many developers working on it at once.

What was your experience of Collatz?

The coding part of it wasn’t too bad, but there was a lot of extra stuff that we had to do for the assignment. I probably finished the code in around an hour, but spent a lot of time making sure I had everything that was required. I guess it’s good practice for the real world, though, since a lot of these extra things that we had to do seemed to be things that a company/project manager would require you to do (and also is just good practice for working in teams in general).

What was your experience of exceptions?

I haven’t used exceptions all that much since I’m pretty bad about making my code super clean, but they seem very useful and easy to use.

What made you happy this week?

I forced myself to start earlier on this project and I actually finished it, so that was pretty cool.

What’s your pick/tip-of-the-week?

I recently installed an app called Alarmy on my phone. It’s an alarm app that forces you to get out of bed by doing things like math problems or taking a picture of something. It’s really helped me fix my sleep schedule so far (before, I was always getting out of bed way after noon).