CS371g Summer 2020 Week 4: Abu-Zayd Abdullah
- What did you do this past week?
This past week me and my partner met up, worked on and completed Project 2: Netflix. We ended up using a variety of caches and ended up with a RMSE of 0.94 on probe.txt and an average RMSE of about 0.93 on all the other acceptance tests.
2. What’s in your way?
Nothing is really in my way; Project 2 took significantly longer than Project 1, so I am a little behind on some of my other work.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will prepare for the coming exam and hopefully start working on the next project. I also do want to try to find some time to learn more Swift.
4. What was your experience of RMSE, lambdas, function objects, Boost serialization, and iterators?
I already had experience with lambdas and function objects, but the Boost serialization and iterators lectures were interesting. I did not know about the different strength iterators or that there were even different kinds of iterators so that was definitely enlightening.
5. How are you doing and holding up? What’s been most helpful for you in terms of support at this time?
I have been doing well, just have to figure out how to manage my time a little better. My family and friends have been helpful to me in terms of support.
6. What made you happy this week?
Me and a few others managed to rewrite one of our pintOS projects from OS despite it being some time since we took the class. It was really nice that we were able to remember what we had learned from the class and be able to complete the project in a substantially smaller amount of time than it took us the first time.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
If you like to do Web Development than you might like a little tool called Sizzy it is a minimal browser emulator tool that allows you to have several different device sizes to ensure that your website is truly responsive across many different breakpoints.
