CS371p Fall 2020 Week 6: Abu-Zayd Abdullah
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I wrapped up the Voting project, running our solution against all the tests in the public test repo. Luckily all of them ran without differences so we were able to submit early.
2. What’s in your way?
Project 3 is now out and I am still not sure I have a complete grasp on some aspects of the project though I assume a more careful look over it this weekend will make things clearer. Aside from Project 3 I also have another lab for Network Security and Privacy me and my partner need to test. Also midterms are coming up soon so I need to start preparing for those as well.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will work on Project 3 as well as hopefully get through testing my NetSec lab. I will also try to find time to start studying for midterms.
4. If you read it, what did you think of Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
I found it incredibly enlightening, I never really realized just how large of a problem existed.
5. What was your experience of arrays, equal(), and iterators?
It was good review, as we talked about a lot of the same stuff in Generic Programming. I do find C++’s emphasis on using iterators for a lot of its algorithms to be very elegant. I also like how there are varying strength iterators as that allows you to use the right one for the task you are trying to accomplish.
6. What made you happy this week?
This week was kind of light as far as work goes and I took it kind of easy, though from a productivity standpoint this may not have been ideal it was incredibly refreshing.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is a talk given by Sara Vieira called “Build Dumb [expletive] — The Value of Useless Things”. The talk is amazing, it talks about why it is important to build things even when things seem useless because “useless” is subjective, something you consider to be useless could be quite useful to someone else and if you no one builds these seemingly useless things they will never exist. This one of many amazing talks given at NordicJS last year, so if your interested definitely check some of the other talks out. Fair warning though this talk is NSFW.
