CS371p Spring 2022: Week 4
- What did you do this past week? We learned about exceptions on Monday, the difference between C and C++ strings on Wednesday, and then did a HackerRank exercise about strcmp on Friday. We also reviewed the * and & tokens in C++. Also, the Collatz project was due this past Tuesday.
- What’s in your way? The HackerRank on Friday stressed me out a little bit, because we only had a couple minutes left before we solved it and we thought that we might run out of time. I remember I used to speed through the exercises last year in SWE because I knew Python really well, but now this class is really testing my C++ skills. I’ll have to review C++ a bit more on my own to prevent these scares.
- What will you do next week? I’ll attend lectures, review Downing’s notes to prepare for the quizzes, and keep my eye out for the next project that he assigns.
- What did you think of Paper #4: Pair Programming? I agreed with a lot of the points made in the paper. I haven’t pair programmed for a class in a while, until this semester, and it takes a lot less time for me to complete the project when I’m working with someone else. Even when I compare progress on the same project, when I work with someone vs. when I go back home and take a crack at it myself for a bit, I’m definitely less focused and efficient by myself, and it’s easier to run into bugs when I code by myself too.
- What was your experience of exceptions and StrCmp? I’ve dealt with exceptions in Java and Python. The syntax for C++ is not too different. As for StrCmp, I remember a similar exercise we had to do in Python for SWE last year.
- What made you happy this week? My friends and I played badminton and went bouldering at Greg Gym a few times this week, which was really fun and helped me get my mind off of work temporarily.
- What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week? My tip of the week is to remind everyone to check Ed Discussion often! A lot of good threads were started right before the project was due, and they helped me double check that I was doing everything that was needed to get that E/M on the project.
