CS371p Spring 2021: Week 9

Blog Post 9

What did you do this past week?

I spent the first portion of the week finishing up the allocator project. The rest of the week was split up finishing smaller assignments or preparing for quizzes in other classes.

What’s in your way?

Nothing currently. My upcoming assignment due dates are spread out across the week and should provide me with enough time to finish each project or assignment on time.

What will you do next week?

Finish the algorithms home work that is due Wednesday and a lab I have due on Friday. Other than that though I hope to catch up on some reading assignments I have been falling behind on and start early on project 4.

If you read it, what did you think of the Interface Segregation Principle?

It was another interesting read with many useful general guidelines to follow when organizing or making new classes and interfaces. I feel I understood mostly everything that was mentioned in the paper, but hope to have hands on practice (hopefully in project 4?) with the concepts just to make sure I have them down properly.

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

I had used vectors in the previous projects, but I only used the basic functions and didn’t look too far into them. For example I didn’t know many of the details or methods of initializing that was covered in class. It will be hard to remember all the subtle differences in initializing a vector in the different ways we covered in class.

What made you happy this week?

The amount of assignments have dropped down to a normal amount for me, so it was a fairly relaxing week without the stress of due dates constantly around the corner.

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

Use leetcode or hacker rank or any other equivalent site to cement stuff covered in class. I find that if I’m having trouble understanding something, doing some problems covering or using data structures or other concepts covered in class helps me to understand and retain them better.